Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 43.4 to 24.4, and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs 1.8x less per output token ($0.28 vs $0.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 13 benchmarks have a result for both.
Claude Haiku 5.5 or DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423: which to pick
Only Claude Haiku 5.5 has a coding score, 70.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 for output tokens 1.8x cheaper ($0.28 vs $0.50 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).
- Shared results
- 13
- Claude Haiku 5.5 only
- 50
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 only
- 36
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Claude Haiku 5.5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads, 43.4 against 24.4.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has a AA Agentic Index result, 26.3.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads, 1262 against 1207.
Same board, both measured
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Claude Haiku 5.5 has a Vals Index result, 58.7%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.0003, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Haiku 5.5 70.7 from 5 benchmarks, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 17.8 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: data viz: Claude Haiku 5.5 1294 against DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 1127, 20.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.50 against DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 $0.28 per million output tokens, 1.8x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Haiku 5.5 takes 1M tokens, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Bars | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 6 | 0 | ||
| General | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 13 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index30
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 91.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1586 | 1582 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 52.0 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 36.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 44.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 47.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 44.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 20.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 75.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SciCode | 55.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierCode | 46.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 45.6% | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 678.2 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1457 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1453 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1605 | 1585 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1569 | 1558 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| SciCode | 9.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 43.4 | 24.4 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.3 | 146.1 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 26.3 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LiveBench research | 81.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 57.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 5.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 54.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 31.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 43.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 4.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 59.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 70.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 10.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vals Science Index | 38.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $3,602 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 82.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 35.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 44.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 89.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 89.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 46.3% | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 55.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 30.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| EBR-bench | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1444 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1441 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1449 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 52.2% | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 75.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 46.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ProofBench | 89.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1426 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1432 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 51.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 23.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1446 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1448 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1439 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1425 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1262 | 1207 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1291 | 1162 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1313 | 1196 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1294 | 1127 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1342 | 1188 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1278 | 1205 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1155 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1109 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LiveBench design | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 58.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 53.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 63.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 45.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 89.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| DTBench | 95.0% | 86.4% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMCA | 51.1% | 35.9% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Furniture assembly | 47.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1432 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1421 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1403 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1441 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1419 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1463 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1419 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1389 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1383 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1439 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1436 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1427 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1436 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1449 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1434 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1410 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1400 | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | October 7, 2026 | April 24, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $0.14 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.28 |
| Coding index | 70.7 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 better than DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 for coding?
Only Claude Haiku 5.5 has a coding score, 70.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 for output tokens 1.8x cheaper ($0.28 vs $0.50 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 1M tokens).
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423?
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs $0.14 and $0.28. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 5.5 or DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423?
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 comparison based on?
13 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Haiku 5.5's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.