DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) for your use-case.
Fastest
Baseten
Nebius
Azure
Bitdeer AI
DeepSeekOutput speed
Total 9 providers
Lowest Latency
BasetenNebiusAzureBitdeer AIDeepSeekTime to first answer token
Total 9 providers
Lowest Price
DeepSeek
GMI
DeepInfra (FP4)Bitdeer AI
SiliconFlow (FP8)Blended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 9 providers
DeepSeek V4 Pro (max) is available through 9 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Baseten (140.1 t/s), Nebius (97.6 t/s), and Azure (90.4 t/s). Speed varies significantly across providers, with a 181% difference between the fastest and slowest.
- For latency, Baseten (31.80s), Nebius (46.18s), and Azure (50.10s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, DeepSeek (0.18), GMI (0.31), and DeepInfra (FP4) (0.59) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens. Prices vary up to 10.9x across providers.
- Baseten offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, DeepSeek provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort)
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
| DeepInfra | 1.05M | Open | $1.19 | 48 | 1.19 | 102.99 | 91.37 | ||
| Microsoft Azure | 1M | Open | $9.65 | 88 | 1.71 | 57.38 | 49.96 | ||
 Novita | 1.05M | Open | $1.09 | 66 | 1.75 | 75.64 | 66.31 | ||
| Bitdeer AI | 1M | Open | $0.71 | 78 | 2.01 | 64.62 | 56.19 | ||
| SiliconFlow | 1.05M | Open | -- | 50 | 1.80 | 99.54 | 87.71 | ||
| GMI | 1.05M | Open | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Nebius | 1M | Open | $9.70 | 112 | 1.31 | 44.72 | 38.95 | ||
| Baseten | 1M | Open | $3.73 | 137 | 0.57 | 36.08 | 31.87 | ||
| DeepSeek | 1M | Open | $0.12 | 65 | 1.63 | 76.56 | 67.25 | ||
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) providers
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) is available through 9 API providers: DeepInfra (FP4), Azure, Novita, Bitdeer AI, SiliconFlow (FP8), GMI, Nebius, Baseten, and DeepSeek. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) is currently available through 9 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The most affordable providers for DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) by blended price are DeepSeek ($0.18 per 1M tokens), GMI ($0.31 per 1M tokens), and DeepInfra (FP4) ($0.59 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) are DeepSeek ($0.43 per 1M input tokens), GMI ($0.68 per 1M input tokens), and Bitdeer AI ($1.25 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) are DeepSeek ($0.87 per 1M output tokens), GMI ($1.36 per 1M output tokens), and DeepInfra (FP4) ($2.60 per 1M output tokens).
Output speed for DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) varies significantly across providers. Baseten is the fastest at 140.1 t/s, which is 2.8x faster than DeepInfra (FP4) at 49.9 t/s.
All 9 providers of DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) support JSON mode for structured output.
All 9 providers of DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort) support function calling (tool use).
When choosing a provider for DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort), consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort)'s intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview