Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale: side-by-side summary

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Claude Sonnet 4.5, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window and is priced at $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale, from DeepSeek, has a 131,072-token context window and is priced by the provider serving it on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Claude Sonnet 4.5: 1,000,000 tokens
• DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale: 131,072 tokens

Price

• Claude Sonnet 4.5: $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output
• DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale: Pricing varies by provider

Provided by

• Claude Sonnet 4.5: Anthropic
• DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale: DeepSeek

• Claude Sonnet 4.5 model details, providers and pricing
• DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale model details, providers and pricing