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DeepSeek V4-Pro

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deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro · by DeepSeek · mixture-of-experts

Pricing — 1 offering(s)

Input tokens

  • $0.435 / 1M tokens (input) Historical 2026-08-04 → 2026-08-15
  • $1.32 / 1M tokens (input) Current 2026-08-16 → present

Output tokens

  • $0.87 / 1M tokens (output) Historical 2026-08-04 → 2026-08-15

    Same sourcing basis as the input tier.

  • $3.96 / 1M tokens (output) Current 2026-08-16 → present

Off-peak input tokens

  • $0.66 / 1M tokens (input) Current 2026-08-16 → present

Off-peak output tokens

  • $1.98 / 1M tokens (output) Current 2026-08-16 → present

Cached input tokens (cache hit)

  • $0.044 / 1M tokens (cached input) Current 2026-08-16 → present

Off-peak cached input tokens (cache hit)

  • $0.022 / 1M tokens (cached input) Current 2026-08-16 → present

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Capability profile

How DeepSeek V4-Pro rates across core capability dimensions, with the task-level evidence behind each rating.

reasoning Strong

Independent coverage: "DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max outperforms all prior open models across reasoning benchmarks and matches state-of-the-art closed models on many metrics"; MMLU-Pro ~87.5% (V4-Pro-Max config). These figures are for the max-effort configuration and are from secondary coverage, not a verified reading of the tech report's tables.

coding Strong

Independent coverage (V4-Pro-Max): LiveCodeBench Pass@1 ~93.5, Codeforces rating ~3206, statistically tied with Claude Opus 4.7 on SWE-bench Verified (~80.6 vs ~80.8). Strong open-model coding performance; the registry's `supports_coding` / `agentic_tool_use` flags are set.

tool use Strong

Drives DeepSeek's in-house agentic coding infrastructure; integrates with Claude Code / OpenCode / OpenClaw per the release notes. The agent-oriented Responses API support for this tier was rolling out as of the registry's verification date.

context window Strong

1,000,000-token default context.

instruction following Moderate
multilingual Moderate

Strong Chinese and English; not especially broad beyond those.

speed Moderate

~49B active parameters; the compressed-attention design keeps long-context cost manageable but this is the slower, dearer tier.

cost efficiency Moderate

$1.32 / 1M cache-miss input, $3.96 / 1M output at peak rates, half that off-peak (DeepSeek's pricing page, checked 2026-10-10). About 4.4x V4.1-Flash on input and 3.3x on output, but still cheap versus closed frontier models of comparable reasoning/coding quality, and MIT open weights.

Benchmark Score Harness Source
swe-bench-verified ↗ 96.4% 2026-09 mini-swe-agent 📊 leaderboard ↗
terminal-bench-2-1 54.7% 2026-09 terminus-2 📊 leaderboard ↗
terminal-bench-4-0 14.1% 2026-09 mini-swe-agent 📊 leaderboard ↗
livecodebench ↗ 87.5% 2026-09 — 📊 leaderboard ↗

Operator guidance

Route here when you want near-frontier reasoning/coding at open-model cost and V4.1-Flash isn't strong enough. Against proprietary frontier models (Claude Opus, GPT-5.x), V4-Pro is competitive on the cited coding/reasoning benchmarks at a fraction of the price, with the tradeoff of running a 1.6T-parameter model (self-host) or trusting DeepSeek's hosted API. For pure cost efficiency at long context, V4-Flash.

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