DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 vs Solar Pro 3
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 leads Solar Pro 3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 34.3 to 7.8, and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 costs 1.5x less per output token ($0.396 vs $0.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 7 benchmarks have a result for both.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 or Solar Pro 3: which to pick
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has a coding score, 51.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Solar Pro 3 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 7
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 only
- 48
- Solar Pro 3 only
- 3
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 leads, 34.3 against 7.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 leads, 41.0 against 1.4.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has a GPQA Diamond result, 89.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has a MMLU Pro result, 86.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1237.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 $0.0003, Solar Pro 3 $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has the number, $0.01.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 51.8 from 4 benchmarks, Solar Pro 3 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- General, 47.3 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Coding Index: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 69.1 against Solar Pro 3 16.2, 52.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 $0.396 against Solar Pro 3 $0.60 per million output tokens, 1.5x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 takes 1.05M tokens, Solar Pro 3 131K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Bars | Solar Pro 3 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 7 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Coding Index | 69.1 | 16.2 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 88.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 18.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 74.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 38.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 32.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 67.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 50.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 72.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| SciCode | 50.3% | 25.5% | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 7.6% | Only Solar Pro 3 measured |
| FrontierCode | 18.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| WeirdML | 63.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1306.1 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 34.3 | 7.8 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.8 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 41.0 | 1.4 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 49.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 28.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 30.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 57.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 64.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 86.3% | Only Solar Pro 3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 90.8% | 72.4% | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 38.6% | 10.3% | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 89.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| SimpleBench | 61.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 32.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 34.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 94.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 57.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 24.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| ProofBench | 56.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 86.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 77.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 61.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 70.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 41.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1237 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1233 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1207 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1180 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1208 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1229 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1184 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1090 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 80.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 71.2% | Only Solar Pro 3 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 79.7% | 32.3% | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 |
| DTBench | 90.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| LMCA | 41.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 41 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Solar Pro 3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Upstage Solar Pro 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | Upstage |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 31, 2026 | January 27, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.14 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.396 | $0.60 |
| Coding index | 51.8 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.01 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 better than Solar Pro 3 for coding?
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 has a coding score, 51.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Solar Pro 3 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 or Solar Pro 3?
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.396 per million output tokens; Solar Pro 3 costs $0.15 and $0.60. Cost per solved task is known for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 only.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 or Solar Pro 3?
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 vs Solar Pro 3 comparison based on?
7 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Solar Pro 3's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.