DeepSeek · Released Apr 24, 2026DeepSeek V4 Pro
Open MoE flagship with million-token context for coding and long agent runs.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $1.32per 1M tokens
- Output
- $3.00per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1M384K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $1.32per million tokens
- Output
- $3.00per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $1.74pricier than 67% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $4.14 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $48.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $480.00 |
Median of 49 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for DeepSeek V4 Pro yet.
The details
- Lab
- DeepSeek
- Released
- Apr 24, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- May 2025
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 384,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Always on
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Open weights
- Availability
- 52 API providerslisted on models.dev
What DeepSeek claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
| Benchmark | Score | Setting | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Verified | 80.6 resolved | — | Source |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index | 50.1 | high | Source |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | 67.8 | high | Source |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 18 | high | Source |
| Terminal-Bench v2.1 | 64.7 | high | Source |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.5 EM | preview checkpoint; max effort | Source |
| SimpleQA-Verified | 57.9 | preview checkpoint; max effort | Source |
| Chinese SimpleQA | 84.4 | preview checkpoint; max effort | Source |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.1 | preview checkpoint; max effort | Source |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.7 | preview checkpoint; max effort; without tools | Source |
| LiveCodeBench | 93.5 | preview checkpoint; max effort | Source |
| Codeforces | 3206 rating | preview checkpoint; max effort | Source |
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About DeepSeek V4 Pro
How much does DeepSeek V4 Pro cost?
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.32 input / $3.00 output per million tokens (median across 49 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $1.74 per million tokens, more expensive than 67% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of DeepSeek V4 Pro?
DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens per request and can write up to 384,000 tokens in one response.
How good is DeepSeek V4 Pro?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for DeepSeek V4 Pro yet.
Is DeepSeek V4 Pro open source?
Yes. DeepSeek publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does DeepSeek V4 Pro support?
DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts text and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was DeepSeek V4 Pro released?
DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4 Pro on Apr 24, 2026. Its training data runs to May 2025.
What are the best alternatives to DeepSeek V4 Pro?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are GLM-5V-Turbo (Z.ai (Zhipu), $1.20 / $4.00), Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview (Google, $1.00 / $5.00), MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed (Xiaomi, $1.30 / $2.61) and Seed 2.1 Pro (ByteDance Seed, $0.891 / $4.45).