DeepSeek V4-Pro vs DeepSeek V4-Flash vs DeepSeek V3.2

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4-Propreview
8.5
AI Panel
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4-Flashpreview
8.7
AI Panel
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3.2GA
8.2
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderDeepSeekDeepSeekDeepSeek
Family / tierDeepSeek V4 · ProDeepSeek V4 · FlashDeepSeek V3 · Large
StatuspreviewpreviewGA
Released2026-04-232026-04-232025-11-30
Knowledge cutoff2026-022026-022025-07

Architecture & context

Context window1M1M128K
Max output tokens384K384K64K
Input modalitiestexttexttext
Reasoning modeoptionaloptionaloptional
Open weightsYesYesYes

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$0.435$0.14$0.252
Output$0.87$0.28$0.378
Cached input$0.0036$0.0028$0.025
Batch input
Free tierYesYesYes

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)
Time to first token (s)
Latency tiermediumfastmedium

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputsYesYesYes
LicenseMITMITMIT
Clouds
Compliance

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.58.78.2
Decision Maker88.58
Domain Strategist8.58.58
Finance Lead9.59.79
Domain Practitioner8.58.58.5
Power User7.587.5
Skeptic7.57.57.5
Value score9.79.99.3

Benchmarks

MMLU-Pro87.586.285
GPQA Diamond90.188.1
AIME 202593.1
SWE-bench Verified80.67967.8
HumanEval76.8
LiveCodeBench93.591.674.1
MRCR Long Context83.578.7
SimpleQA57.934.1
Humanity's Last Exam37.734.830.6
LMArena Coding Elo1287
Artificial Analysis Index52

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.