DeepSeek V4 Pro Shifts Pareto Frontier with Unusually Low API Pricing
eyishazyer · x · 2026-08-13
The price-to-performance gap of DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) makes its numbers incredibly interesting.
It reached 1607 in Code Arena WebDev AutoEval, sitting only 15 points behind GPT-5.6 Sol xHigh while charging about 1/31st of its blended token price. Although Kimi K3 Max leads it by 67 points at 1674, Kimi's listed $3/$15 pricing produces a blended cost almost 16 times higher. This indicates DeepSeek is shifting the Pareto frontier at unusually low API pricing.
Related event: DeepSeek Releases V4 Pro(5 posts)→
More from Models
- GLM 5.5 rumored to drop soon, coding ability expected to match frontier models — bindureddy · 2026-10-16
- Five rounds of adversarial prompting make Opus 5.5 and Argon converge on identical output — LanceCharger · 2026-10-16
- DIY benchmark ranks 18 models on subjective judgments, GLM-5.3 tops consensus match — arkuto · 2026-10-16
- Bindu Reddy: Google's Argon excels at complex doc writing at half the cost of Opus — bindureddy · 2026-10-16
- MAI-2 is 2x bigger than V4-Pro while V4.1F is 3x smaller: Microsoft's scaling ladder questioned — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-16
- Step 5 Preview hits DeepInfra day-zero: 600B MoE, 1M context, $1/M input tokens — StepFun_ai · 2026-10-16