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.
Benchmark scores
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.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
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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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.44 | $0.000435 |
| Output | $0.87 | $0.000870 |
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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.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: July 29, 2026 8:38 pm