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DeepSeek's own retrained V4-Flash — the cheaper, faster sibling model — now beats flagship V4 Pro on nine agent benchmarks.
DeepSeek's flagship V4 Pro entered late July already under scrutiny, benchmarked head-to-head against Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2 on cost, license, and serving price. Within days a rival low-cost model was already beating it on price-performance.
State over time
First independent three-way comparison of V4 Pro against Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2 on benchmarks, licensing, and serving cost.
A rival low-cost model surfaces already beating V4 Pro on price-performance.
DeepSeek's retrained V4-Flash overtakes flagship V4 Pro on nine agent benchmarks.
First independent three-way comparison of V4 Pro against Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2 on benchmarks, licensing, and serving cost.
A rival low-cost model surfaces already beating V4 Pro on price-performance.
DeepSeek's retrained V4-Flash overtakes flagship V4 Pro on nine agent benchmarks.
What to watch — open questions
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