DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek Benchmarks | SWE-bench, HumanEval vs GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3.1

DeepSeek V3/V4 benchmark results: SWE-bench, HumanEval, MMLU vs GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro | 2026 AI comparison

DeepSeek excels across multiple benchmark tests, with V4 targeting performance that competes with Claude 4.6 (SWE-bench 80.8%) and Gemini 3.1 Pro (80.6%) while surpassing GPT-5.4 (77.2%) — at 10-80x lower cost. V3 data from official reports; V4 targets from leaks.

🏆 2026 Frontier Model Benchmarks

DeepSeek V4 (expected) vs GPT-5.4 vs Claude 4.6 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro

Benchmark

DeepSeek V4

GPT-5.4

Claude 4.6

Gemini 3.1 Pro

SWE-bench Verified

80%+ (target)

77.2%

80.8%

80.6%

HumanEval

90%+ (target)

N/A

MMLU

88+ (target)

N/A

Context Window

1M+ (Engram)

1.05M

Input Price / M tokens

$0.10-$0.30

$2.50

$5.00

$2.00

Output Price / M tokens

~$1.00 (est.)

$15.00

$25.00

$12.00

Open Source

✅ Apache 2.0

❌

V4 data are targets from leaks/reports, not official. GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3.1 data from official releases.

💻 Code Generation Capability

Performance on programming tasks including code completion, generation and debugging

HumanEval

Python code generation test by OpenAI with 164 programming problems

DeepSeek Leading

DeepSeek

89.5%

GPT-3.5

72.5%

GPT-4

86.4%

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 surpasses GPT-3.5, approaches GPT-4 level

MBPP

Python code generation benchmark by Google with 974 test cases

DeepSeek

82.3%

GPT-3.5

76.2%

GPT-4

85.5%

DeepSeek performs excellently, significantly ahead of GPT-3.5

MultiPL-E

Multi-language programming test covering 18 programming languages

Comprehensive knowledge capability across multiple disciplines

MMLU

Multiple choice test covering 57 subjects

GPT-4 Leading

DeepSeek

84.5%

GPT-3.5

70.0%

GPT-4

86.4%

Slightly below GPT-4, but better than most open-source models

C-Eval

Chinese comprehensive ability evaluation with 13,948 questions

DeepSeek Leading

DeepSeek

86.2%

GPT-3.5

69.5%

GPT-4

78.3%

Chinese capability far exceeds GPT series

📖 Reading Comprehension

Long text understanding and information extraction capability

RACE

English reading comprehension test

DeepSeek

89.7%

GPT-3.5

83.2%

GPT-4

91.3%

Approaches GPT-4 level

💰 Cost-Performance Comparison

Under same performance, DeepSeek has clear cost advantage

Comparison Item	DeepSeek	GPT-4	Savings
Input Price	$0.14 / 1M tokens	$10.00 / 1M tokens	↓ 70x
Output Price	$0.28 / 1M tokens	$30.00 / 1M tokens	↓ 107x
Daily 1M tokens cost	~$0.21	~$20.00	↓ 95x
Monthly cost (10M tokens/day avg)	~$63	~$6000	↓ 95x

0.8-1.2 seconds

Time from sending request to receiving first token

⚡

Streaming Output Speed

30-50 tokens/sec

Tokens generated per second during streaming output

⚡

Batch Processing Throughput

10000+ tokens/sec

Total throughput during batch processing

💡 Tip: Actual speed affected by network, request parameters and other factors

📊 Comprehensive Assessment

DeepSeek excels in code generation, math reasoning, Chinese understanding tasks. Performance approaches GPT-4 but cost only 1/70. For apps requiring massive AI calls, DeepSeek is the best value choice.

Core Strengths

✅ Top-tier code generation, HumanEval 89.5%

✅ Math reasoning accuracy 92.3%, surpasses GPT-4

✅ Chinese capability far exceeds GPT series

✅ Cost only 1/70 of GPT-4

✅ Supports 128K context, V4 will support million-level

Use Recommendations

⚠️ General conversation capability slightly below GPT-4

⚠️ Creative writing not as rich as GPT-4

⚠️ Currently mainly text model, limited multimodal capability

Test DeepSeek Free on Atlas Cloud

Experience performance yourself, verify benchmark data

Try Free