Home / Alternatives / DeepSeek V4 Pro DS Alternatives to DeepSeek V4 Pro For coding help for non-developers, DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 56 and costs $9.90 per 1,000 requests. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Overall 53 $1.98 / 1M
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Alternatives to Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek V4 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 4 Argon Gemma 4 31B IT GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Luna GPT-6 Sol GPT-6.1 Sol Grok 4.7 Kimi K3 MiniMax-M3 Mistral Large 4 Mistral Medium 3.5 Muse Spark 1.3 Muse Wonder Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Nova 2 Lite Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.8 Max 98% similar Mi Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI Overall 37−16
Blended / 1M $2.07+4%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Mistral Large 4 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall −16 Coding −1 Writing −27 Support −13 Value −17 Context 1M Back
92% similar An Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic Overall 53±0
Blended / 1M $4.00+102%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Claude Sonnet 5 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall ±0 Coding −1 Writing −8 Support −3 Value −4 Context 1M Back
92% similar xA Grok 4.7 xAI Overall 35−18
Blended / 1M $3.00+52%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Grok 4.7 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall −18 Coding −4 Writing −25 Support −28 Value −21 Context 500K Back
90% similar Open weights NV Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVIDIA Overall 34−19
Blended / 1M $1.05−47%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall −19 Coding −5 Writing −18 Support −21 Value −17 Context 262K Back
90% similar OA GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI Overall 60+7
Blended / 1M $4.50+127%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-5.6 Terra vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall +7 Coding −2 Writing −8 Support −2 Value +3 Context 1.1M Back
88% similar Open weights Z GLM-5.3 Z.ai Overall 61+8
Blended / 1M $2.15+9%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GLM-5.3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall +8 Coding +12 Writing +9 Support +8 Value +7 Context 1M Back
88% similar G Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Overall 71+18
Blended / 1M $1.50−24%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Gemini 3.8 Flash vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall +18 Coding +10 Writing +19 Support +19 Value +19 Context 1M Back
88% similar OA GPT-6 Sol OpenAI Overall 52−1
Blended / 1M $4.00+102%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6 Sol vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall −1 Coding +6 Writing −25 Support −22 Value −5 Context 1.1M Back
81% similar M Muse Spark 1.3 Meta Overall 68+15
Blended / 1M $2.00+1%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Muse Spark 1.3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall +15 Coding +19 Writing +9 Support +12 Value +15 Context 1M Back
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