DeepSeek · open · 2026-04

DeepSeek-V4-Pro

#3 index 88.1
the take

The open-weights model that actually reaches the frontier, at prices that should embarrass the closed labs. The asterisk is loud: these are vendor numbers in max-reasoning mode, not yet independently replicated. If they hold, it is the story of the year.

benchmarks
specs
Context
1M
Input
$0.435/M
Output
$0.87/M
Speed
89.9 tok/s
Modality
text
strengths
  • Frontier scores at a fraction of the price
  • MIT-licensed, self-hostable, 1M context
  • Strong agentic and competitive coding
weaknesses
  • Headline scores vendor-reported, unverified
  • 1.6T params make self-hosting heavy
  • Text-only; top scores need expensive Think-Max

Sources: [1][2]