DeepSeek V4 Pro
by DeepSeek · deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro · #131 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
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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Pricing
Input
$0.435
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.87
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.544
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.0036
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for DeepSeek V4 Pro with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.544 | $0.0452 | — |
| 50% | $0.382 | $0.0237 | −48% |
| 90% | $0.253 | $0.006416 | −86% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.000478 | $0.4785 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.00435 | $4.35 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0148 | $14.79 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.0696 | $69.60 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
44.3
AA composite quality
Coding Index
59.4
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
36.4
Output speed
74 tok/s
median
Time to first token
0.99s
median
Time to first answer
60.41s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 35.9% |
| SciCode | 50.0% |
| IFBench | 76.5% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 66.3% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 46.2% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 64.0% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 96.2% |
| τ³-Bench Banking | 25.8% |
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,261 |
| Web apps | 1,005 |
| Full-stack | 948 |
| UI components | 1,263 |
| Data viz | 1,212 |
| SVG | 1,183 |
| 3D | 1,310 |
| Game dev | 1,288 |
| Godot game dev | 1,059 |
| Code categories | 1,272 |
| ASCII art | 1,194 |
Specs
Context window
1.05M
tokens
Max output
384K
tokens
Input modalities
text
Tokenizer
DeepSeek