DeepSeek V4-Pro
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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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See how →Capability profile
How DeepSeek V4-Pro rates across core capability dimensions, with the task-level evidence behind each rating.
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.
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.
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.
1,000,000-token default context.
Strong Chinese and English; not especially broad beyond those.
~49B active parameters; the compressed-attention design keeps long-context cost manageable but this is the slower, dearer tier.
$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.
Coding benchmarks
View the full coding benchmark leaderboard →| 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.
Use cases
- Frontier-adjacent open-weights reasoning and agentic coding where V4.1-Flash's ceiling isn't enough and cost still matters
- Very-long-context (up to 1M) analytical and coding tasks at the premium open tier
- Self-hosted deployment under MIT for teams that need a top-tier open model in their own environment
Limitations
- Active-parameter count and architecture details are from independent coverage, not DeepSeek's own docs
- GA-date and snapshot naming vary across sources by a few weeks
- Announced peak/off-peak pricing not yet live; not reflected in the registry