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DeepSeek V4 Pro at a glance

Good enough on 22/52 tasks at the 90% bar. Best value on 0 tasks. Best fit for: Long-form Content Generation.

Provider
DeepSeek
Model name
deepseek-v4-pro
Cost mode:
Qualifies on
22 / 52 tasks (at 90% bar)
Best value on
0 tasks

Cost vs quality across all tasks

0%25%50%75%100%78910Quality score (7–10)Cost-efficiency vs best value (1.0 = best value)Report Executive Summary Generation — quality 8.28, 7.8x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionReference Preserving Analytical Writing — quality 8.59, 11.0x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionShort Promotional Teaser Generation — quality 8.59, 19.8x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionMulti Perspective Decision Synthesis — quality 8.06, 14.3x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionTopic Section Assignment — quality 7.85, 14.6x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionPublication Title Package Generation — quality 8.27, 3.2x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionEngagement Opportunity Triage — quality 8.31, 23.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionProfile Pool Matching — quality 8.08, 5.8x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionLanguage Identification — quality 9.86, 14.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionSocial Post Portfolio Selection — quality 8.47, 14.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionVoice Profile Generation — quality 9.35, 32.2x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionAuthoritative Source Selection — quality 8.06, 15.2x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionBatch Text Translation — quality 8.54, 29.0x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionTopic Taxonomy Matching — quality 8.24, 14.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionContent To Image Prompt Generation — quality 8.54, 20.8x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionGenerated Content Relevance Scoring — quality 8.39, 39.1x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionPromotional Message Generation — quality 8.27, 25.6x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionCommunity Content Promotion Generation — quality 8.08, 11.9x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionStructured Output Extraction — quality 9.54, 29.3x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionSection Prompt Generation — quality 8.25, 31.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionTopic Cluster Labeling — quality 8.45, 6.4x the cost of the best-value good-enough optionModel Specific Prompt Adaptation — quality 8.44, 12.5x the cost of the best-value good-enough option

within ~1.3× of the best-value model · 1.3–2× · >2× · ★ this model is the best-value pick on that task. Top-right = best quadrant. Only tasks where this model qualifies at the 90% bar are plotted.

Per-task breakdown

TaskCategoryQuality (% of best)ConfidenceOverpay
Publication Title Package GenerationContent Summarization & Synthesis90%RANKED3.2x
Profile Pool MatchingRelevance, Classification & Matching92%HIGH5.8x
Topic Cluster LabelingTopic Organization & Clustering95%HIGH6.4x
Report Executive Summary GenerationContent Summarization & Synthesis95%MEDIUM7.8x
Reference Preserving Analytical WritingLong-form Content Generation94%HIGH11x
Community Content Promotion GenerationSocial & Promotional Content93%MEDIUM12x
Model Specific Prompt AdaptationInfrastructure & Utility96%RANKED13x
Multi Perspective Decision SynthesisFinancial Analysis & Trading Decisions91%RANKED14x
Social Post Portfolio SelectionRelevance, Classification & Matching97%HIGH14x
Language IdentificationRelevance, Classification & Matching98%RANKED15x
Topic Section AssignmentTopic Organization & Clustering90%HIGH15x
Topic Taxonomy MatchingRelevance, Classification & Matching98%RANKED15x
Authoritative Source SelectionRelevance, Classification & Matching92%MEDIUM15x
Short Promotional Teaser GenerationSocial & Promotional Content98%HIGH20x
Content To Image Prompt GenerationInfrastructure & Utility95%RANKED21x
Engagement Opportunity TriageRelevance, Classification & Matching94%RANKED24x
Promotional Message GenerationSocial & Promotional Content95%HIGH26x
Batch Text TranslationInfrastructure & Utility91%MEDIUM29x
Structured Output ExtractionStructured Data & Fact Extraction98%RANKED29x
Section Prompt GenerationInfrastructure & Utility96%MEDIUM31x
Voice Profile GenerationLong-form Content Generation95%RANKED32x
Generated Content Relevance ScoringRelevance, Classification & Matching91%MEDIUM39x

Overpay — how much more you pay by running this model instead of the best-value model that clears the quality bar on that task (marked ★). "16x" means you overpay 16× — the same output for 16× the best-value good-enough option; ★ means this model is that option (no overpayment). Confidence — how sure we are about the quality score (more judgments + more agreement = higher confidence): RANKED many independent judges scored this model's outputs and their agreement is very high (most confident) — HIGH many judges have scored it and they mostly agree (well-pinned) — MEDIUM enough judges have weighed in to publish, but they disagree more than we'd like (treat with a small grain of salt). LOW-confidence cells are hidden everywhere on the site. See the methodology for the exact thresholds.