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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Claude Sonnet 5.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
ProviderAnthropicDeepseek
FamilyClaude 4DeepSeek
Modalitytexttext
Context window1,000,000 tok1,048,576 tok
Max output128,000 tok32,768 tok
Released2026-10-062026-10-17
Input price$2.00 /1M$0.300 /1M
Output price$10.00 /1M$1.20 /1M
Cache read——
Toolsyesyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyesyes
JSON modeyesyes
Reasoningyesyes
Prompt caching——
Claude Sonnet 5.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
Full spec →

Claude Sonnet 5.5 offers the best combination of speed and intelligence, with adaptive thinking for coding, tool use, reasoning, and long-horizon work.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
Full spec →

We introduce DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 552B backbone parameters and support for contexts of up to one million tokens. The model natively processes images and text, and generates text autoregressively.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Claude Sonnet 5.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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