The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs gpt-5.5-pre-release ·DeepSeek vs OpenAI

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs gpt-5.5-pre-release — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro profile gpt-5.5-pre-release profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro — DeepSeek
Quality
#6 of 61
93based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#182 of 316
45.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#145 of 340
$0.54
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.43 · Out $0.87
Cache hit price
#12 of 206
$0.004
per 1M tokens (−99%)
Context
#25 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
gpt-5.5-pre-release — OpenAI
Quality
#1 of 61
98based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 93 and gpt-5.5-pre-release scores 98 — a 5-point lead for gpt-5.5-pre-release. They share 3 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro ahead on 0 and gpt-5.5-pre-release ahead on 3.

Published pricing is tracked for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro only, at $0.54 per 1M tokens blended.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); gpt-5.5-pre-release is proprietary. 18 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 98 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.54
Output tok/s 45
Context window 1.05M
Providers 18 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Known Good Index 93 98
Mathematics Index 97 100
Science Index 94 99
Agentic Index 89 94
Openness Index 60 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro · marker = gpt-5.5-pre-release · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 94
MATH / AIME97 / 100
SWE-bench Verified78 / 81

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro / gpt-5.5-pre-release. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro leads on 0 of 3, gpt-5.5-pre-release on 3.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Text Arena 1,449
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,457
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Input $/1M $0.43
Output $/1M $0.87
Blended $/1M $0.54
Cache read $/1M $0.004
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Context window 1.05M
Max output tokens 384k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Output tokens/s 45
Time to first token 2.0s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

18 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro tok/s gpt-5.5-pre-release blendedgpt-5.5-pre-release tok/s
BaseTen $2.17 110
Fireworks $2.17 66
Novita $1.46 66
DeepInfra $1.62 65
GMICloud $0.85 62
Venice $2.06 61
Baidu · first party $0.78 58
Together $2.17 53
Alibaba · first party $1.77 52
AtlasCloud $2.10 46
Wafer $1.50 45
DeepSeek · first party $0.54 44
SiliconFlow $1.91 41
StreamLake $0.84 41
CoreWeave $2.17 28
Ionstream $1.41 20
DigitalOcean $1.74 6
Parasail $2.17

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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