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Sunday, September 20, 2026 AutoCurated · Updated 11:15 UTC

Models · DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the flagship reasoning model from DeepSeek, delivering performance competitive with much more expensive models. It supports both thinking and non-thinking modes for flexible deployment.

Input $1.32 per 1M tokens
Output $3.96 per 1M tokens
Context 1M tokens · $5.28 combined per 1M
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Benchmark performance

GPQA Diamond 71.7 / 100
Coding Index 58.7 / 100
Intelligence Index 20.8 / 100
Humanity's Last Exam 8.2 / 100

Source: Artificial Analysis. Updated 2026-09-20.

Key strengths

  • — Frontier reasoning at budget pricing
  • — Flexible thinking/non-thinking modes
  • — 1M context window
  • — Excellent tool calling and JSON output

Best use cases

  • Complex analytical tasks
  • Research and reasoning workloads
  • Production agents requiring deep thinking
  • Applications needing both speed and depth

Pricing details

Input (per 1M tokens)$1.32
Output (per 1M tokens)$3.96
Context window1M tokens
ArchitectureAdvanced MoE transformer, 1M context, supports thinking mode for enhanced reasoning
Provider DeepSeek

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Pricing data is sourced from official API documentation and updated weekly. Actual costs may vary based on prompt caching, batch processing, service tiers, and regional pricing. Inblix is not affiliated with DeepSeek.