Roundup
Best AI Models for Coding
Which frontier models actually hold up in multi-file refactors, agentic tooling and test-driven work, and what they cost per million tokens.
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (batch)
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813:batch
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is a large-scale mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek. This is the GA release of DeepSeek V4 Pro.
Listed (12 Aug 2026)
Source: OpenRouter (live)
- Input
- $0.660
- USD per 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.98
- USD per 1M tokens
- Blended
- $0.990
- 75% in / 25% out
- Context
- 1.0M
- tokens
- Max output
- 944K
- tokens
- Modality
- text->text
Prices as listed on OpenRouter, refreshed every five minutes. Provider-direct prices may differ. Convert to your currency on the AI Tracker.
Capabilities
Declared on the listing
- Tool / function calling Declared
- Reasoning controls Declared
- Structured output Declared
- InputText
- OutputText
Capabilities are read from the provider listing. “Not declared” means the listing does not advertise the feature, not that it is absent.
Why it costs this
Pricing context
- 1.2× median
- Market median blended price is $0.806/M across 417 priced models.
Alternatives
More from DeepSeek
DeepSeek
$0.262
/M blended
$0.165
/M blended
$0.323
/M blended
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek
$0.806
/M blended
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek
$0.050
/M blended
$0.165
/M blended
Alternatives
Similar price, other providers
Z.ai (Zhipu)
$0.998
/M blended
ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo
Bytedance Seed
$1.00
/M blended
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)
Anthropic
$1.00
/M blended
Z.ai (Zhipu)
$1.00
/M blended
Aion Labs
$1.00
/M blended
Aion Labs
$1.00
/M blended
Within ±50% of $0.990/M blended.
Analysis
Related reading
Review
DeepSeek Review
Open-weight, remarkably cheap and genuinely capable. Where DeepSeek fits and what to watch for.
Low-cost open-weight reasoning and chat models. All DeepSeek models · Official site
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