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DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 vs. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code

DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 against Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code: Geospatial Agent Index, each evaluation, cost, time and tokens, on the same tasks and limits. The harnesses differ, so part of any gap can come from the harness. Methodology.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 vs. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code
MetricDeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code
Geospatial Agent Index: Text only7269
Geospatial Agent Index: Text + visionNo image input71
Earth-Bench V2 score7256
GeoBenchX score6577
GS-QA2 score7976
Vision agents scoreNo image input78
GeoAgentBench score (Guided workflows; not in the Agent Index)9494
GeoAnalystBench score (Guided workflows; not in the Agent Index)8995
OGD4All score (standalone; in no index)No data96
GeoNatureAgent score (standalone; in no index)No data100
MultiGlobeQA score (standalone; in no index)No data77
GeoAgentEval score (standalone; in no index)No data100
Remote sensing and raster analysis score7869
GIS analysis score7775
Climate and time series score7359
Spatial statistics score3838
Making maps score7584
Recognising infeasible requests score5880
Cost per task$0.065$0.043
Time per task (at 100 output tokens/s)5.9 min0.4 min
Tokens per attempt341k70k
Turns per attempt15.63.9
Input price per 1M tokens$0.44$2.00
Output price per 1M tokens$1.32$10.00
Context window1,048,5761,000,000
Image inputNoYes
DeveloperDeepSeekAnthropic

Charts

Geospatial Agent Index

Equal average of Earth-Bench V2, GeoBenchX and GS-QA2, 0 to 100 · Higher is better

Geospatial Agent IndexScores 0 to 100: DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2: 72; Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code: 69025507510072DeepSeek V4 Flash (high)69Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low)
Data table: Geospatial Agent Index
Geospatial Agent Index
ModelDeveloperGeospatial Agent Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2DeepSeek72
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude CodeAnthropic69

Cost per task

Average cost per task (USD) · Lower is better

Cost per taskCost per task in US dollars: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code: $0.043; DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2: $0.065$0$0.02$0.04$0.06$0.08$0.043Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low)$0.065DeepSeek V4 Flash (high)
Data table: Cost per task
Cost per task
ModelDeveloperCost per task
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude CodeAnthropic$0.043
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2DeepSeek$0.065

Output tokens per task

Average output tokens per attempt, reasoning included · Lower is better

Output tokens per taskOutput tokens per task: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code: 1k; DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2: 31k010k20k30k40k1kClaude Sonnet 5.5 (low)31kDeepSeek V4 Flash (high)
Data table: Output tokens per task
Output tokens per task
ModelDeveloperOutput tokens per task
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude CodeAnthropic1k
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2DeepSeek31k

Frequently asked questions

Which scores higher on the Geospatial Agent Index, DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 or Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code?
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2, 72 to 69.
Which is cheaper per task, DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 or Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code, $0.043 to $0.065.
Which writes fewer output tokens per task, DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 or Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code, 1k to 31k.
Which has the larger context window, DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 or Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low), Claude Code?
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2, 1,048,576 tokens to 1,000,000 tokens.

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