On August 12, DeepSeek launched V4 Professional at $0.87 per million output tokens. The identical day, SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.6 at $6 per million output tokens.
DeepSeek’s V4 Professional and Grok 4.6 shipped on the identical day
The 2 releases got here inside hours of one another.
Founder Liang Wenfeng shipped the manufacturing V4 Professional construct early yesterday. The preview ran about 4 months.
SpaceXAI, the AI arm led by Elon Musk, launched Grok 4.6 the identical day.
Each corporations focused their fashions for long-horizon agent work. The mannequin continues to invoke instruments, modify code, look at its outcomes, and ship a whole artifact.
V4 Professional’s output fee is about one-seventh of Grok 4.6, one-thirty-fifth of OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, and one-fifty-seventh of Claude Fable 5.
SpaceXAI lists Grok 4.6 at $2 per million enter tokens and $6 per million output. A quick model is double the worth, and lengthy context requests over 200,000 tokens are $4 and $12.
DeepSeek beats that, itemizing enter at $0.435 per million on a cache miss and as little as $0.003625 on a cache hit.
V4 Professional is a mix of specialists system with 1.6 trillion whole parameters, 49 billion energetic per token, skilled on greater than 32 trillion tokens.
The context window is one million tokens with a 384,000 token output ceiling. Open weights had been downloaded over 1.4 million instances on Hugging Face in a month.
V4 Professional wins on safety and automation. It scored 83.3 on the CyberGym agent benchmark, towards 83.1 for Fable 5 and 78.3 for Claude Opus 4.8. On AutomationBench V4 Professional hit 31.8, forward of each.
V4 Professional scored 87.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1. The rating is larger than Opus 4.8’s 85.0 however falls in need of Fable 5 by 0.1 factors.
SpaceXAI’s checks point out that Grok 4.6 tops GDPVal-AA v2 with 1,753 Elo, up from Grok 4.5’s 1,526, and scored 15.8% on the Harvey authorized benchmark, the place GPT-5.6 Sol scored 2.5%.
Grok 4.6 ties GPT-5.6 Sol at 61 on the Synthetic Evaluation Intelligence Index, one level behind Fable 5.
In a Flappy Hen recreation construct, V4 Professional used 20,000+ tokens for $0.019 and delivered richer element. Grok 4.6 used about 5,000 tokens however price $0.03.
V4 Professional additionally failed with a pelican animation. The hen gave the impression to be shifting backwards.
DeepSeek V4 Professional 0813 is reside on OpenRouter.@deepseek_ai stories giant agent positive factors over V4 Professional Preview: DeepSWE 62.7 (+49.9), CyberGym 83.3 (+30.6), NL2Repo 61.5 (+23.0), and Terminal Bench 2.1 87.9 (+15.8)
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Cryptopolitan has beforehand reported that an app that produces 100 million output tokens per thirty days prices ~$87 on V4 Professional in comparison with ~$2,500 on Claude Opus 4.7 or $3,000 on GPT-5.5.
V4 Professional’s charges can become profitable for methods that lose cash on Western AI fashions.
DeepSeek reached the $0.87 fee in Might, when it made a 75% lower everlasting, dropping output from $3.48, as Cryptopolitan reported on the time.
DeepSeek has said {that a} “important enhance” in general API pricing is coming, so the present ground could not maintain.
In a workers handle on August 12, Musk stated AI income would eclipse all different SpaceX strains mixed in September and signify 99% of the corporate’s worth in 5 years.
