Home / Alternatives / DeepSeek V4 Pro DS Alternatives to DeepSeek V4 Pro For writing marketing and blog copy, DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 61 and costs $5.81 per 1,000 drafts. 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 91% 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
90% 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
89% similar OA GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI Overall 74+21
Blended / 1M $4.00+102%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6.1 Sol vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall +21 Coding +22 Writing −3 Support −1 Value +17 Context 1.1M Back
84% 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
83% similar Qw Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen) Overall 66+13
Blended / 1M $3.00+52%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Qwen3.8 Max vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall +13 Coding +19 Writing +14 Support +13 Value +11 Context 1M Back
83% similar G Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google Overall 29−24
Blended / 1M $0.85−57%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall −24 Coding −20 Writing −11 Support −13 Value −20 Context 1M Back
83% 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
81% similar Open weights Ki Kimi K3 Moonshot AI Overall 65+12
Blended / 1M $6.00+203%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro Overall +12 Coding +18 Writing +8 Support +14 Value +5 Context 1M Back
80% 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
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