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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs DeepSeek VL2 Small

Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek VL2 Small are closely matched at 5.4 and 1.5 on the LLM Stats Score.

Anthropic · DeepSeek · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek VL2 Small are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 5.4 and 1.5.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude 3.5 Haiku

  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes

Choose DeepSeek VL2 Small

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Dec 2024
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
5.4
#283
1.5
#305
Reasoning
5.6
#280
-3.5
#323
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
$0.80 / M
— / M
Output price
$4.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
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Individual benchmarks

9 reported for Claude 3.5 Haiku · 14 for DeepSeek VL2 Small

No common benchmarks found

Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek VL2 Smalldon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek VL2 Small
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Wed Sep 02 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

DeepSeek VL2 Small supports multimodal inputs, whereas Claude 3.5 Haiku does not.

DeepSeek VL2 Small can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Text
Images
Audio
Video

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while DeepSeek VL2 Small uses deepseek.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

DeepSeek VL2 Small

deepseek

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while DeepSeek VL2 Small was released on 2024-12-13.

DeepSeek VL2 Small is 2 months newer than Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.9 years ago

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Dec 13, 2024

1.7 years ago

1mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek VL2 Small side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3.5 Haiku vs DeepSeek VL2 Small.

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Haiku or DeepSeek VL2 Small?

Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek VL2 Small are closely matched on the LLM Stats Score at 5.4 and 1.5. Claude 3.5 Haiku is made by Anthropic and DeepSeek VL2 Small is made by DeepSeek. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude 3.5 Haiku compare to DeepSeek VL2 Small in benchmarks?

Claude 3.5 Haiku scores HumanEval: 88.1%, MGSM: 85.6%, DROP: 83.1%, MATH: 69.4%, MMLU-Pro: 65.0%. DeepSeek VL2 Small scores DocVQA: 92.3%, ChartQA: 84.5%, OCRBench: 83.4%, TextVQA: 83.4%, MMBench: 80.3%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek VL2 Small?

Claude 3.5 Haiku supports 200K tokens and DeepSeek VL2 Small supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek VL2 Small?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (5.4 vs 1.5), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (Proprietary vs deepseek). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek VL2 Small?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is developed by Anthropic and DeepSeek VL2 Small is developed by DeepSeek.

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