DeepSeek · AI model
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek's larger V4-generation model (version DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813), available in the API as deepseek-v4-pro. Text-only input, 1M-token context, up to 384K output tokens and a thinking mode with low, high and max effort levels. Weights are published under the MIT License.
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Key specs
- Provider
- DeepSeek
- Family
- DeepSeek-V4
- API identifier
- deepseek-v4-pro
- Availability
- Available
- Release date
- 2026-08-13
- License
- Open source (MIT License)
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 393,216 tokens
- API access
- Yes
- Consumer app
- Unknown
Capabilities
Inputs
- Text input Yes
- Image input No The pricing page marks Vision as not supported for deepseek-v4-pro.
- Audio input No The Chat Completions reference lists only text, image_url and file (image data) content parts.
- Video input No The Chat Completions reference lists only text, image_url and file (image data) content parts.
- File input No The Anthropic-compatible API marks document content blocks as not supported and the Responses API states that file inputs are not supported. The Files API accepts only images, which this model does not support.
Outputs
- Text output Yes
- Image output Unknown
- Audio output Unknown
Features
- Reasoning Optional Supports non-thinking mode and thinking mode (the default). Effort levels low, high and max per the 2026-08-13 changelog entry and the Thinking Mode guide.
- Tool calling Yes Function tools only (Chat Completions reference); required or named tool_choice is not supported in thinking mode. Strict mode is in beta.
- Web search Yes Responses API: built-in web_search tool supported with deepseek-v4-pro (the API runs the search server-side and adds the results to the context); billing for it is not stated. Chat Completions takes function tools only. Claude Code's Web Search also works via the Anthropic-compatible endpoint.
"Unknown" means we have not verified this capability yet; it does not mean the model lacks it.
Pricing
Estimate your monthly cost →| Dimension | Tier | Price | Since | Verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input tokens | base | $1.32 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-25 | Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs Cache miss, peak rate. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays; all other hours (including weekends and Chinese public holidays) are off-peak. |
| Cached input tokens | base | $0.044 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-25 | Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs Cache hit, peak rate. |
| Output tokens | base | $3.96 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-25 | Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs Peak rate. |
| Tool and search requests | Search / Fetch API | $0.75 per 1,000 requests | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 | Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs Separate Search and Fetch API endpoints: per 1,000 successful requests each; failed, empty and timed-out requests are not billed. Calls by server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex are free until billing starts at 16:00 UTC on 2026-10-31 (00:00 Beijing time, 2026-11-01). |
| Other | Off-peak cached input | $0.022 per 1M units | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-25 | Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs Cache hit. Off-peak rate (half of the peak rate): all hours outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Monday to Friday, including weekends and Chinese public holidays |
| Off-peak input | $0.66 per 1M units | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-25 | Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs Cache miss. Off-peak rate (half of the peak rate): all hours outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Monday to Friday, including weekends and Chinese public holidays | |
| Off-peak output | $1.98 per 1M units | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-25 | Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs Off-peak rate (half of the peak rate): all hours outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Monday to Friday, including weekends and Chinese public holidays |
Prices are shown in the currency the provider publishes; we never convert currencies.
Price history (7 entries)
| Dimension | Tier | Price | From | Until |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input tokens | base | $1.32 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-12 | current |
| Cached input tokens | base | $0.044 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-12 | current |
| Output tokens | base | $3.96 per 1M tokens | 2026-10-12 | current |
| Tool and search requests | Search / Fetch API | $0.75 per 1,000 requests | 2026-10-25 | current |
| Other | Off-peak cached input | $0.022 per 1M units | 2026-10-12 | current |
| Other | Off-peak input | $0.66 per 1M units | 2026-10-12 | current |
| Other | Off-peak output | $1.98 per 1M units | 2026-10-12 | current |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Setting | Score | Reported by | Measured | Verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationBench % tasks completed correctly, higher is better | AutomationBench (Public), version not stated; effort not stated | 31.8 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 model card (Hugging Face) |
| public evaluation set, v1.0.6, Pass@1; max effort; official scaffold | 43.2 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (DeepSeek-AI, arXiv 2609.19969, submitted 2026-09-17) | |
| DeepSWE v1.1 % resolved (pass@1), higher is better | Resolved; max effort; DeepSeek Harness (Minimal mode) | 62.7 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 model card (Hugging Face) |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) accuracy %, higher is better | max effort; Epoch harness (Python tool) | 64.6 % | Third party | 2026-08-19 | 2026-10-25 | FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI) |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 Elo, higher is better | max effort; Stirrup agent loop (shell + web browsing) | 1,449 Elo | Third party | — | 2026-10-25 | GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis) |
| non-reasoning; Stirrup agent loop (shell + web browsing) | 1,056 Elo | Third party | — | 2026-10-25 | GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis) | |
| Humanity's Last Exam accuracy %, higher is better | no tools, text-only subset, Pass@1; max effort | 42.7 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model card (Hugging Face) |
| with tools, Pass@1; max effort | 60 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model card (Hugging Face) | |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 % tasks resolved, higher is better | Pass@1; max effort; harness not stated | 12.4 % | Self-reported | — | 2026-10-25 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model card (Hugging Face) |
| Text Arena Arena score, higher is better | Overall, style control on; high effort | 1,465 | Third party | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-25 | Text Arena leaderboard (Arena) |
Leaderboard versions (for example 1.0.5 and 1.0.6) are not comparable. Some results use fallback routing for refused steps: for "Claude Fable 5.1 (with Opus 5 Fallback)", Opus 5 handled 260 of 657 tasks. Artificial Analysis runs a separate leaderboard, AutomationBench-AA, which uses a guardrail-adjusted metric; its scores are not comparable with Zapier's. The partial_credit metric is for diagnostics only. The leaderboard shows no per-row evaluation dates.
The official leaderboard uses mini-swe-agent for all models and shows whole-number percentages with margins of about ±1 to ±6 points. Providers often report scores from their own scaffolds or effort settings; DeepSeek reports 65.5% to 74.2% for the same model depending on the scaffold. DeepSWE v1 scores are not comparable with v1.1. With only 113 tasks, small differences are within noise.
FrontierMath was developed with funding from OpenAI, which has exclusive access to a subset of the problems. Scores from v1 and from Tier 4 (a separate 43-problem expansion set) are not comparable with Tiers 1-3 (v2). The best models score about 94%, so the benchmark separates mid-size models better than it separates frontier models. Epoch's numbers come from its own harness (Python tool, 1M-token limit), which can differ from providers' internal setups. Margins are about ±1.4 to ±2.6 points.
Elo is a relative rating: values change as models are added and the scale is re-anchored, so always store the date a rating was read. For example, Anthropic's launch page gives 1846 for Claude Opus 5.5, while the leaderboard on 2026-10-12 shows 1866 (Max, Default Fallback). Earlier versions (Google cites "GDPVal-AA v2") are not comparable. Judging is done by an LLM, not by human experts. Anthropic models are listed with "Default Fallback", meaning refused steps are routed to a fallback model. AA-Briefcase and GDP.pdf are separate evaluations.
Results differ a lot by setting: with tools versus without tools (Anthropic reports 45.9% without tools and 57.4% with tools for Claude Haiku 5.5), and the full set versus the text-only subset. Providers use different judge models and harnesses (Scale uses o3-mini; Alibaba states GPT-4o). Derived sets such as HLE-Verified (a third-party revision with 1,811 scored items), HLE-Rolling and HLE-Diamond are different item sets and are not comparable. The questions are public, so contamination is possible, and community reviews have reported flawed items.
Scores depend heavily on the agent harness (for example Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build or mini-SWE-agent) and on the reasoning effort, so the same model appears several times on the leaderboard. Leaderboard rows are often submitted by the organisation that builds the agent. Providers' own runs can differ from the leaderboard: Anthropic reports 66.4% for Claude Opus 5.5 at max effort, while the leaderboard lists 64.8% ± 3.1%. Versions 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 and Artificial Analysis' "Terminal-Bench Hard" use different task sets and are not comparable with 4.0. Margins are about ±3 points.
Scores measure voter preference, which can be influenced by answer style and length. The leaderboard offers a style-control adjustment, so record which view was used. Scores shift with every update, so a value is only meaningful together with its leaderboard date. Entries marked "Preliminary" or with few votes have wide confidence intervals. The same model can appear several times with different reasoning-effort suffixes (for example -high or -max). Category views (Coding, Math, Creative Writing and others) are different rankings from Overall.
One row per result, without rank numbers: each result was measured under its own setting (effort level, harness, tools, test version), as stated by the source, and scores compare only within the same setting. Self-reported results come from the provider and have not been reproduced independently.
Rankings
- #10 of 14 in Best AI for research as of 2026-10-26
- #11 of 42 in Best AI API as of 2026-10-26
- #15 of 39 in Best AI for business as of 2026-10-26
- #23 of 26 in Best AI for students as of 2026-10-26
Derived from our published ranking snapshots; each ranking explains its criteria and weights.
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About DeepSeek-V4-Pro
The general-availability release of DeepSeek-V4-Pro was rolled out in the app, on the web and in the API on 2026-08-13; a preview version had been available in the API since 2026-04-24. The API model version is DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, which supersedes the preview and adds a DSpark speculative decoding module. The pricing page lists Vision as not supported for this model.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
- 1M-token context window and up to 384K (393,216) output tokens
- Thinking mode with low, high and max effort levels, plus JSON output and tool calls
- Server-side web_search tool in the Responses API (ignored for deepseek-flash)
- Available through the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and Responses APIs and the Anthropic-compatible API
- Weights published on Hugging Face under the MIT License
Weaknesses
- No image input (the pricing page marks Vision as not supported)
- Higher prices than deepseek-flash ($1.32 per 1M input tokens and $3.96 per 1M output tokens at peak) and a lower concurrency limit (500 vs 2,500)
- Future availability is uncertain: the 2026-09-10 announcement says DeepSeek is phasing out V4-Pro, while the changelog says its API continues after 2026-09-14 until further notice
Sources
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 config.json (Hugging Face)
- Chat Completions API | DeepSeek API Docs
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro GA Release 2026/08/13 | DeepSeek API Docs
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 model card (Hugging Face)
- Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs
- Anthropic API | DeepSeek API Docs
- Integrate with Claude Code | DeepSeek API Docs
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model card (Hugging Face)
- FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI)
- GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (DeepSeek-AI, arXiv 2609.19969, submitted 2026-09-17)
- Text Arena leaderboard (Arena)
- Responses API | DeepSeek API Docs
Last verified Page updated 2026-10-27