Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.
| Provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek |
| Family / tier | DeepSeek V4 · Flash | DeepSeek V4 · Flash |
| Status | GA | retired |
| Released | 2026-09-10 | 2026-04-24 |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | 2026-02 |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output tokens | 384K | 384K |
| Input modalities | text, image | text |
| Reasoning mode | optional | optional |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Input | $0.3 | $0.14 |
| Output | $1.2 | $0.28 |
| Cached input | $0.006 | $0.0028 |
| Batch input | — | — |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Output speed (tok/s) | — | — |
| Time to first token (s) | — | — |
| Latency tier | fast | fast |
| Trains on inputs | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Clouds | — | — |
| Compliance | — | — |
| Unified score | 8.6 | 8.7 |
| Decision Maker | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| Domain Strategist | 9 | 8.5 |
| Finance Lead | 9 | 9.7 |
| Domain Practitioner | 9 | 8.5 |
| Power User | 8.5 | 8 |
| Skeptic | 7.5 | 7.5 |
| Value score | 9.6 | 9.9 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 86.2 |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.9 | 88.1 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 79 |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 91.6 |
| Terminal-Bench | 90.6 | — |
| MRCR Long Context | — | 78.7 |
| SimpleQA | — | 34.1 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 36.8 | 34.8 |
| LMArena Elo | — | 1438 |
| LMArena Coding Elo | — | 1483 |
Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.