Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs DeepSeek Coder 33B

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#50); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.3

Rank #50 Confirmed

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek Coder 33B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 46.3 to 38.0.
  • DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and DeepSeek Coder 33B specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index50.338.9
Released2026-02-172023-11-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked579

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.3 (#67), DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1522—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—42%
LMArena Coding1504—
BigCodeBench Complete—51.1%
ALE-Bench1,327—
HumanEval+—75%
MBPP+—70.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#28), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#45), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
Epoch Capabilities Index152.2496.32
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1484—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
ForecastBench62—
WinoGrande—62%

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 52.9 (#49), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
LMArena Math1462—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—
GSM8K—35.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.7 (#65), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—
LMArena Expert1500—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.2%
MMLU—39.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#68), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.4 (#41), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Non-English1440—
LMArena Chinese1491—
LMArena French1465—
LMArena German1428—
LMArena Japanese1420—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1464—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.4 (#25), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Instruction Following1475—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#44), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Longer Query1479—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.2 (#22), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—
LMArena Multi-Turn1464—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than DeepSeek Coder 33B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#50); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or DeepSeek Coder 33B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and DeepSeek Coder 33B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9.

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