Which model is better: Claude 3.5 Haiku or DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp)?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) is 72.5% cheaper for input tokens ($0.22 vs. $0.80 per 1M tokens) and $0.65 vs. $4.00 for output tokens (3.6x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, Claude 3.5 Haiku delivers lower response latency at 190ms TTFT (120ms faster than DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp)) with 130 vs. 165 tok/s throughput. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) leads coding evaluations at 77.4% SWE-bench Verified vs. 40.6% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 91.3% vs. 41.6% on GPQA Diamond.
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Which is cheaper: Claude 3.5 Haiku or DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp)?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) is cheaper at $0.22/1M input tokens ($0.65/1M output) compared to $0.80/1M input ($4.00/1M output) for Claude 3.5 Haiku.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Claude 3.5 Haiku or DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp)?
Claude 3.5 Haiku delivers faster first-token latency at 190ms TTFT (130 tok/s throughput) compared to 310ms TTFT (165 tok/s) for DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp).
How do Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Claude 3.5 Haiku scores 40.6% versus 77.4% for DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp). On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Claude 3.5 Haiku scores 41.6% versus 91.3% for DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) (and 69.4% vs 96.4% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Claude 3.5 Haiku?
Choose Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic) for rapid customer-facing chat, sub-agent routing, and real-time code autocomplete — offering a 204k context window, 190ms TTFT, and $0.80/1M input pricing ($0.080/1M cached reads).
When should you choose DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp)?
Choose DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) (DeepSeek) for ultra-low-cost open-weight multimodal MoE built for high-throughput visual document OCR, chart interpretation, and real-time autonomous coding agents — offering a 1,048k context window, 310ms TTFT, and $0.22/1M input pricing ($0.007/1M cached reads).
