DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro

deepseek · Released Apr 24, 2026
Intelligence #18 / 650
77.9 our score
Speed #200 / 289
60.1 tok/s
Input Price #396 / 650
$0.435 per 1M tokens
Output Price #325 / 650
$0.870 per 1M tokens
Context #28 / 650
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

DeepSeek V4 Pro delivers exceptional coding and agentic benchmark results alongside strong general reasoning, backed by a 1,048,576 token context window and full tool use and function calling support. Instruction following and long-context reliability scores are also high.

This profile suits software engineering teams, autonomous coding agents, and businesses running long-document analysis where holding large codebases or contracts in context matters. It is well suited to agent pipelines that require reliable multi-step tool calls.

Pricing is low for this level of capability, at under a dollar per million input tokens. Businesses seeking near-frontier coding and agentic performance without premium pricing should shortlist this model.

Assessed July 25, 2026

Editorial notes

DeepSeek V4 Pro combines world-class coding and agentic reliability with a 1M token context and strong tool use, at a fraction of flagship pricing.

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DFO Verdict

DeepSeek V4 Pro combines world-class coding and agentic reliability with a 1M token context and strong tool use, at a fraction of flagship pricing.

#18 of 650 overall Up 224 this week

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond 88.8%
HLE 35.9%
SciCode 50%
TerminalBench Hard 46.2%
τ²-Bench 96.2%
IFBench 76.5%
LCR 66.3%

Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

44.3 Intelligence Index·59.4 Coding Index·71.2 Agentic Index

How DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro compares

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro ranks #19 of 395 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #22 of 160 for coding, #9 of 302 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 96% of the models we list. At $0.44 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 39% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 97% of models #18
Speed: faster than 31% of models #200
Price: cheaper than 39% of models #396
Context: larger than 96% of models #28
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro $0.44 in $0.87 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 $5.00 in $25.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence6.8Technical7.6Value7.8Content8.1
Performance profile

Strongest on content. The pulled-in intelligence corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.44 $0.000435
Output $0.87 $0.000870

What would DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

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About DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek V4 Pro is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 1.6T total parameters and 49B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for advanced reasoning, coding,..

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Frequently asked questions about DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro

How much does DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro cost?

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $0.44 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro?

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

Is DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro ranks #22 of 160 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro do?

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro supports tool use and function calling.

Who created DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro?

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is developed by DeepSeek and was released on April 24, 2026.

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