DeepSeek V4 Pro
DeepSeek’s top current API model with one-million-token context and unusually aggressive pricing relative to frontier-class closed models.
Capability profile
- Input
- $1.74 / 1M input tokens
- Output
- $3.48 / 1M output tokens
- Cached input
- $0.0145 / 1M input cache hit tokens
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Free tier
- No / unknown
- API
- Available
- Subscription
- DeepSeek API
- Open-source status
- Closed
- Cost-sensitive advanced reasoning and coding where context size still matters.
- Budget-conscious agents
- coding tasks
- and long-context analysis.
- Buyer confidence cases where teams prefer broader enterprise ecosystem support and more polished product layers.
- Organizations that need the most mature enterprise platform wrappers and procurement comfort.
DeepSeek keeps forcing the market to take price compression seriously. The model matters, but the strategic story is the economics.
DeepSeek’s top current API model with one-million-token context and unusually aggressive pricing relative to frontier-class closed models.
Post Reboot take
DeepSeek keeps forcing the market to take price compression seriously. The model matters, but the strategic story is the economics.
Strengths
Best for: Cost-sensitive advanced reasoning and coding where context size still matters.
Weakest at: Buyer confidence cases where teams prefer broader enterprise ecosystem support and more polished product layers.
Best workflows: Budget-conscious agents, coding tasks, and long-context analysis.
Example use cases: Affordable code assistants, research synthesis, knowledge tasks, and medium-to-large automation systems.