Evidence in this edition9 source links

none reviewed yet · 4 benchmark observations · latest capture Sep 8, 2026

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Task fit79.7/100

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Cost at your workload$121.88

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At a glance

9 facts
Provider
DeepSeek
Type
API model
Access
DeepSeek API (OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible base URLs), Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, OpenRouter (18 providers incl. StreamLake, NovitaAI, Baidu Qianfan, DeepInfra, CoreWeave), self-hosting
Context
1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output
384K tokens (shared 384k output budget)
License / weights
Open weights
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Pricing notes
DeepSeek direct peak: $1.32 in / $3.96 out per 1M; off-peak exactly half at $0.66/$1.98; cache-hit input $0.044 peak / $0.022 off-peak. Peak hours 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Mon-Fri. OpenRouter blended: $0.5795 in / $1.738 out, cache read $0.01932.

The practical trade-offs

Documented strengths

  • Terminal-Bench 2.1 87.9% is within 0.9 pts of the best model in the set while costing a fraction of it
  • MIT-licensed 1.6-1.7T MoE weights, so the exact model can be self-hosted
  • Sub-2-second TTFT and 1M context on the hosted API
  • Off-peak pricing halves an already low rate ($0.66/$1.98)

Limitations to check

  • Design Arena Website 1258 (rank 42) shows visual taste well behind frontier models
  • Text-only: screenshot-to-code needs the separate vision-exp model
  • SWE-bench Pro 55.4% is far below the Anthropic tier
  • Serving 1.6T+ weights locally is out of reach for most teams
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Evidence & conditions

9 source links
9Source links
NoneReviewed records
4Benchmark runs
Sep 8, 2026Latest capture

Benchmark observations

Terminal-Bench 2.1 Inspect conditions
name
Terminal-Bench 2.1
value
87.9
unit
%
source Url
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
checked At
2026-09-08T19:28:18Z
attribution
provider-reported
configuration
Exact DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813; minimal DeepSeek Harness; reasoning_effort=max; temperature=1; top_p=0.95.
DeepSWE Inspect conditions
name
DeepSWE
value
62.7
unit
%
source Url
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
checked At
2026-09-08T19:28:18Z
attribution
provider-reported
configuration
Exact DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813; minimal DeepSeek Harness; reasoning_effort=max; temperature=1; top_p=0.95.
NL2Repo Inspect conditions
name
NL2Repo
value
61.5
unit
%
source Url
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
checked At
2026-09-08T19:28:18Z
attribution
provider-reported
configuration
Exact DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813; minimal DeepSeek Harness; reasoning_effort=max; temperature=1; top_p=0.95.
Arena WebDev Frontend Inspect conditions
name
Arena WebDev Frontend
value
1586
unit
arena_score
source Url
https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code/webdev/frontend
checked At
2026-09-08T19:28:18Z
attribution
benchmark-publisher
configuration
Exact row deepseek-v4-pro-high-20260813; source results dated 2026-09-05; human preference; confidence interval +/-12; 2718 votes. This is a checked source snapshot, not a newly run September 8 evaluation.

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