Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.
| Provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | DeepSeek |
| Family / tier | DeepSeek-VL · VL | DeepSeek V4 · Flash | DeepSeek V4 · Pro |
| Status | GA | GA | GA |
| Released | 2024-12-13 | 2026-09-10 | 2026-08-13 |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-10 | — | 2026-02 |
| Context window | 4K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output tokens | 4K | 384K | 384K |
| Input modalities | text, image | text, image | text |
| Reasoning mode | none | optional | optional |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Input | — | $0.3 | $1.32 |
| Output | — | $1.2 | $3.96 |
| Cached input | — | $0.006 | $0.044 |
| Batch input | — | — | — |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Output speed (tok/s) | — | — | — |
| Time to first token (s) | — | — | — |
| Latency tier | fast | fast | medium |
| Trains on inputs | No | Yes | Yes |
| License | custom-deepseek-model-license | MIT | MIT |
| Clouds | — | — | — |
| Compliance | — | — | — |
| Unified score | 7.2 | 8.6 | 8.5 |
| Decision Maker | 7.5 | 8.5 | 8 |
| Domain Strategist | 7 | 9 | 8.5 |
| Finance Lead | 8.5 | 9 | 9 |
| Domain Practitioner | 7.5 | 9 | 8.5 |
| Power User | 6.5 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| Skeptic | 7 | 7.5 | 7.5 |
| Value score | 8.8 | 9.6 | 9.4 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | 87.5 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 90.9 | 90.1 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | 80.6 |
| HumanEval | — | — | 76.8 |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | 93.5 |
| MMMU | 51.1 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 90.6 | — |
| MRCR Long Context | — | — | 83.5 |
| SimpleQA | — | — | 57.9 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 36.8 | 37.7 |
| LMArena Elo | — | — | 1463 |
| LMArena Coding Elo | — | — | 1503 |
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