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DeepSeek V4 Pro vs o3 Pro

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Winner summary

DeepSeek V4 Pro wins 2 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in general.

Category leads
general·DeepSeek V4 Procoding·o3 Pro
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4 Pro
#89 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
o3 Pro
#42 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
140.8x better value than o3 Pro
DeepSeek V4 Pro
172.1 pts/$
$0.31/M
o3 Pro
1.2 pts/$
$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 Proo3 Pro
Dtbench
DeepSeek V4 Pro leads by +6.2
DeepSeek V4 Pro
84.5
o3 Pro
78.2
Lmca
DeepSeek V4 Pro leads by +3.2
DeepSeek V4 Pro
48.5
o3 Pro
45.3
WeirdML
o3 Pro leads by +9.3
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
DeepSeek V4 Pro
48.9
o3 Pro
58.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Proo3 Pro
Dtbench
84.578.2
Lmca
48.545.3
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
48.958.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Pro$0.21$0.421.0M tokens (~524 books)$2.61
OpenAI logoo3 Pro$20.00$80.00200K tokens (~100 books)$350.00