how do I deeply compare 2 objects using Cypress

I want to compare a response from an Api request against a benchmark

Json response looks like this

projects: [
      {
        description: "",
        id: 6823,
        title:
          "",
      },
    ]

My test is doing the following:

cy.request(
      "<api>"
    ).then((response) => {
      assert.deepEqual(
        response.body,
        greatBenches.benchTerm1
      );
    });

I tried the same thing using expect().to.deep.equal() and I get the same result

Expected {Object (projects)} to deeply equal {Object (projects)}