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DeepSeek-V4-Pro

DeepSeek·

LLMsopen-weightcloud + localFrontier

Overview

Preview release, available via API and open weights. 1.6T total / 49B active MoE with hybrid attention and manifold-constrained hyper-connections. Reports 27% of single-token inference FLOPs and 10% of KV cache vs DeepSeek-V3.2 in a 1M-token setting.

Capabilities and innovations

1.6T total / 49B active MoE1M token context windowThree reasoning effort modes (incl. Think Max)MIT licenseHybrid attention: CSA + HCAManifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections27% inference FLOPs and 10% KV cache vs V3.2 at 1M tokens

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
GPQA Diamond90.1%vendor
Official model card, instruct table, Think Max column: GPQA Diamond 90.1 (High mode 89.1, Non-Think 72.9).
Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools)37.7%vendor
Official model card, Think Max column: HLE 37.7. The card does not state whether tools were enabled.
SWE-bench Verified80.6%vendor
Official model card, Think Max column: SWE-bench Verified 80.6.
SWE-bench Pro55.4%vendor
Official model card, Think Max column: SWE-bench Pro 55.4.
MMLU-Pro87.5%vendor
Official model card, Think Max column: MMLU-Pro 87.5.
Terminal-Bench 2.x50.19%independent
Terminal-Bench 2.1 50.19%, measured by Vals AI with the Terminus 2 harness (accessed 2026-09-23). Vals AI is the reference harness for this field so values compare across vendors; vendor and other third-party figures stay in the notes below. Listed by Vals AI as "DeepSeek V4" at V4-Pro pricing; the later 0813 build scores 54.68 on the same harness. Replaces 67.9 (vendor).
  • MMMU-Pro: not reported by the vendor

API pricing

$0.44 per million input tokens, $0.87 per million output tokens (USD, cheapest OpenRouter endpoint, checked 2026-07-31)

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
1600B total, 49B active per token (MoE)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~920 GB, Frontier class

Reliability

Hallucination rate (Vectara HHEM)
8.6% (lower is better)independent

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