Claude 5.5 SonnetvsDeepgram Flux
Claude 5.5 Sonnet leads the overall Podium Score by 8.3 points (94.8 vs 86.5).Category wins: Claude 5.5 Sonnet 7 — 0 Deepgram Flux.Deepgram Flux is the cheaper pick ($0.015/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Deepgram Flux is faster (260 t/s vs 94 t/s).
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Quick VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
Claude 5.5 Sonnet is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 94.8 (vs 86.5 for Deepgram Flux). In head-to-head domain evaluations, Claude 5.5 Sonnet outperforms in 7 of 7 benchmark categories.
Coding & Engineering
Claude 5.5 Sonnet (91.5)
Inference Speed
Deepgram Flux (260 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Deepgram Flux ($0.015/M)
API Price / 1M (in · out)
Claude 5.5 Sonnet $3/M · $15/M — Deepgram Flux $0.007/M · $0.015/M
Choose Claude 5.5 Sonnet for long documents and large codebases, and Deepgram Flux for cost-sensitive workloads.
| Metric | Claude 5.5 Sonnet | Deepgram Flux |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 94.8 ▲ | 86.5 |
| Arena Elo | 1520 ▲ | 1380 |
| Intelligence Index | 95.0 ▲ | 86.0 |
| Coding | 91.5 ▲ | 0.0 |
| Math | 94.2 ▲ | 0.0 |
| Reasoning | 95.0 ▲ | 25.0 |
| Agentic | 89.4 ▲ | 72.0 |
| Knowledge | 88.0 ▲ | 45.0 |
| Multimodal | 96.0 ▲ | 92.5 |
| Long-context | 98.0 ▲ | 45.0 |
| Output speed | 94 t/s | 260 t/s ▲ |
| Output price | $15/M | $0.015/M ▲ |
| Context window | 1000K ▲ | 64K |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Claude 5.5 Sonnet vs Claude Mythos · Claude 5.5 Sonnet vs Kimi K3.1 Pro · Claude 5.5 Sonnet vs Eleven Multilingual v3 · Claude 5.5 Sonnet vs FLUX.2 Pro