vs
0:13
overall capability wins (0 ties across 13 scored). DeepSeek V4 Pro leads overall.
- Reasoning0:5
- Coding0:3
- Arena0:1
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing2:1
- Speed0:1
- Specs0:3
Verdict
DeepSeek V4 Pro leads coding (widest gap: +47.1 on TermBench); DeepSeek V4 Pro ranks higher on LMArena (+99 Elo); DeepSeek V4 Pro offers ~7.8x larger context (1M vs 128K).
- DeepSeek V4 Pro leads coding (widest gap: +47.1 on TermBench)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro ranks higher on LMArena (+99 Elo)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro offers ~7.8x larger context (1M vs 128K)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro allows ~46.9x more max output (384K vs 8K)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- DeepSeek V3
- $0.55
- DeepSeek V4 Pro
- $0.65
DeepSeek V3 is about 1.2x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
Family
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
License
MIT
MIT
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Dec 26, 2024
Apr 24, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
128K
1M
Max output
8K
384K
Parameters
671B (37B act.)
1.6T (49B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.27
$0.43
Output $/1M
$1.10
$0.87
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.48
$0.54
Speed
tok/s
80
85
TTFT (s)
0.4
0.4
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
75.9
—
GPQA Diamond
55.7
88.8
Humanity's Last Exam
2.9
37.5
AIME 2025
26.0
—
MATH-500
90.2
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
25.5
43.0
AA-LCR v1.1
29.3
74.7
CritPt
—
12.9
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
34.8
76.5
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
49.6
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
16.9
64.0
Aider Polyglot
55.1
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
50.0
—
SciCode
35.8
50.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
23.3
41.4
NL2Repo-Bench
—
38.5
DeepSWE
—
12.8
WebDev Arena
—
1,446
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,358
1,457
| Metric | DeepSeek V3 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | — |
| Family | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | — |
| License | MIT | MIT | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Dec 26, 2024 | Apr 24, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 1M | B +872K |
| Max output | 8K | 384K | B +376K |
| Parameters | 671B (37B act.) | 1.6T (49B act.) | B +929 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.27 | $0.43 | A +$0.16 |
| Output $/1M | $1.10 | $0.87 | B +$0.23 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.48 | $0.54 | A +$0.07 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 80 | 85 | B +5.00 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.4 | 0.4 | tie |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 75.9 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.7 | 88.8 | B +33.1 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 2.9 | 37.5 | B +34.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 26.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 90.2 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 25.5 | 43.0 | B +17.5 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 29.3 | 74.7 | B +45.4 pts |
| CritPt | — | 12.9 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 34.8 | 76.5 | B +41.7 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 49.6 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 16.9 | 64.0 | B +47.1 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 50.0 | — | — |
| SciCode | 35.8 | 50.8 | B +15.0 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 23.3 | 41.4 | B +18.1 pts |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | 38.5 | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 12.8 | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,446 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,358 | 1,457 | B +99 Elo |
DeepSeek V3
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 671B (37B act.)
- Price
- $0.27 / $1.10
- Speed
- 80 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- MIT
Original DeepSeek V3 MoE - the release that reset open-weight price/performance expectations.
DeepSeek V4 Pro
- Context
- 1M / 384K out
- Parameters
- 1.6T (49B act.)
- Price
- $0.43 / $0.87
- Speed
- 85 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- MIT
Open-weight frontier MoE - exceptional quality-per-dollar with MIT license and 1M context. Scores shown are the original preview; the GA 0813 release improves agentic coding substantially.
Benchmark charts
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