DeepSeek V4 Pro
MIT-licensed open-weight heavyweight, among the open-weight leaders on SWE-bench Verified and LiveCodeBench.
Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .
- Overall rank
- #30
- Tier
- A
- Score
- 83.0
- Main category
- Coding
Strengths
- Among the open-weight coding leaders on SWE-bench Verified
- Top-tier LiveCodeBench results within the open field
- Fully open MIT weights, unrestricted for fine-tuning
Considerations
- Trillion-parameter scale is demanding to self-host
- General chat polish trails the top proprietary flagships
- DeepSeek says its newer V4.1-Flash already beats V4-Pro on performance, cost and speed, with a V4.1-Pro still to come
Price
API $1.32 input / $3.96 output per 1M tokens at peak hours ($0.66 / $1.98 off-peak); MIT open weights
Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.
Score breakdown
- Performance
- 85.0
- 55% of score
- Reputation
- 80.0
- 35% of score
- Recency
- 82.0
- 10% of score
The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →
Verification status
Each field carries its own re-verification date. Amber means older than 90 days — treat those figures as stale until re-checked.
Checked against the sources listed below.
Sources
- Artificial Analysis — DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Max): intelligence, performance & price (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- DeepSeek V4-Pro GA release news (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- DeepSeek API models and pricing (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Artificial Analysis — LLM Leaderboard (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- The Next Web — DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
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- NYU Shanghai RITS — DeepSeek releases V4 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Swfte AI Model Leaderboard (Sep 2026) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- 15 Frontier AI Models 2026 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- The Open Weight Models that Matter: June 2026 (OpenRouter) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- TeamDay.ai — Frontier AI Models 2026 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- DiscreteStack (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- DeepSeek API change log (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flash release news (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Best AI Models in 2026: Ranked by Benchmark and Cost (ofox.ai) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Best Open Source LLMs 2026 (Onyx) (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Best AI Model Right Now 2026 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Best AI Models 2026 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Local AI Master — DeepSeek V4-Pro: MIT license, 1M context (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Best AI Models 2026 (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (opens in a new tab)Accessed:
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