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.
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