DeepSeek-V4-Pro alternatives
9 models of comparable capability, ranked by blended token price. DeepSeek-V4-Pro stays in the table, highlighted, as the baseline.
List prices checked
Ranked by blended token price
Cheapest first, at three input tokens per output token.
| # | Model | Provider | Input | Output | Blended | vs DeepSeek-V4-Pro | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek-V4-Proyou are here | DeepSeek | $0.435 | $0.870 | $0.544 | — | 1M |
| 2 | Mistral Large | Mistral AI | $2.00 | $6.00 | $3.00 | 5× dearer | 131K |
| 3 | GPT-5 | OpenAI | $1.25 | $10.00 | $3.44 | 5× dearer | 400K |
| 4 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | $3.44 | 5× dearer | 1M | |
| 5 | OpenAI o3 | OpenAI | $2.00 | $8.00 | $3.50 | 5× dearer | 200K |
| 6 | Cohere Command A | Cohere | $2.50 | $10.00 | $4.38 | 10× dearer | 256K |
| 7 | Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.00 | 10× dearer | 200K |
| 8 | Grok 4 | xAI | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.00 | 10× dearer | 256K |
| 9 | Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | $5.00 | $25.00 | $10.00 | 10× dearer | 200K |
| 10 | Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | $20.00 | Infinity× dearer | 200K |
Source: DeepSeek pricing (August 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.
Questions
- What is the best alternative to DeepSeek-V4-Pro in 2026?
- Nothing in the same capability tier is cheaper than DeepSeek-V4-Pro on a blended basis, which makes it the value pick of its tier. Moving down a tier would cut cost further at some cost in capability.
- Which alternative is cheapest for output-heavy work?
- Rank on the output column rather than the blended figure. Reasoning and agentic loops bill their thinking as output, so a model with cheap input and expensive output can end up the most costly option on the page despite looking competitive here.
- Do these alternatives have the same context window?
- No — the context column varies by more than 8× across this table. If you are feeding whole documents or codebases, filter on window size first and only then compare price, because a cheaper model that cannot hold your input is not an alternative at all.