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DeepSeek V4 Flash vs o3 Pro

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

o3 Pro wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · coding.

Category leads
general·o3 Procoding·o3 Pro
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4 Flash
#39 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
o3 Pro
#42 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
77.4x better value than o3 Pro
DeepSeek V4 Flash
94.6 pts/$
$0.65/M
o3 Pro
1.2 pts/$
$50.00/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
DeepSeek V4 Flasho3 Pro
Dtbench
o3 Pro leads by +0.9
DeepSeek V4 Flash
77.3
o3 Pro
78.2
Lmca
o3 Pro leads by +3.1
DeepSeek V4 Flash
42.2
o3 Pro
45.3
WeirdML
o3 Pro leads by +12.6
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
DeepSeek V4 Flash
45.6
o3 Pro
58.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho3 Pro
Dtbench
77.378.2
Lmca
42.245.3
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
45.658.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash$0.02$1.281.0M tokens (~524 books)$3.37
OpenAI logoo3 Pro$20.00$80.00200K tokens (~100 books)$350.00