DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Grok 4.20
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads Grok 4.20 on coding, 56.1 to 33.3 on the Vibe Coding Index, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs 1.3x less per output token ($1.98 vs $2.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 26 benchmarks have a result for both.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Grok 4.20: which to pick
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 for coding: it scores 56.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.3 for Grok 4.20.
Pick Grok 4.20 for a larger context window (2M against 1.05M tokens) and work measured by ARC-AGI-2 or TaxEval (Vals AI), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 26
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 only
- 52
- Grok 4.20 only
- 29
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 scores 56.1 against 33.3.
5 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads, 36.0 against 25.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a AA Agentic Index result, 41.3.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads, 92.4% against 88.6%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only Grok 4.20 has a AIME result, 96.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads, 87.0% against 86.3%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Grok 4.20 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1229.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a Vals Index result, 53.0%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Grok 4.20
Grok 4.20 takes 2M tokens against 1.05M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $0.0016, Grok 4.20 $0.0025 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $0.10, Grok 4.20 $0.72.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 56.1 from 5 benchmarks, Grok 4.20 33.3 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 28.6 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 82.3% against Grok 4.20 4.1%, 78.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $1.98 against Grok 4.20 $2.50 per million output tokens, 1.3x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 takes 1.05M tokens, Grok 4.20 2M.
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 Pro 0813 | Bars | Grok 4.20 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 6 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 4 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 4 | 1 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 1 | ||
| General | 4 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 24 | 2 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index60
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1582 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 68.8 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.5% | 84.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 96.4% | 72.2% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 14.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 82.3% | 4.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 41.5% | 0.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 51.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 54.7% | 44.2% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 17.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 53.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 72.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SciCode | 51.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 37.9% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 57.3% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| FrontierCode | 28.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| WeirdML | 66.2% | 52.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| ALE-Bench | 1403.2 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1469 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1462 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1588 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1566 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 36.0 | 25.7 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.6 | 152.1 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 41.3 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1144 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1054 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1090 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1045 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1089 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1180 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 1.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 50.4% | 28.5% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 26.8% | 7.0% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 40.9% | 13.9% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 10.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 52.8% | 11.7% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 93.0% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 47.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $4,663 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.4% | 88.6% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 83.5% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.8% | 91.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 41.0% | 34.5% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 90.5% | 89.5% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | 65.1% | Grok 4.20 |
| Chess puzzles | 46.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 43.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1458 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1459 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1463 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 75.0% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 96.5% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 64.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 26.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| ProofBench | 50.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1441 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1443 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 87.0% | 86.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 82.4% | 77.7% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 54.4% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 65.4% | 63.7% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.1% | 74.1% | Grok 4.20 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 45.4% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 94.5% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 42.5% | 32.2% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 52.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1457 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1446 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1459 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1442 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1229 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1200 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1193 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1217 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1193 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1221 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1165 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1175 | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 53.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.2% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 80.2% | 63.4% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 39.1% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 81.2% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 80.3% | 69.0% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| DTBench | 93.9% | 90.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMCA | 45.5% | 38.7% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| CL-bench | Not measured | 22.2% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| CL-bench Life | Not measured | 11.9% | Only Grok 4.20 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1446 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1448 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1439 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1457 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1431 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1481 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1449 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1446 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1435 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1448 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1454 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1458 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1443 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1424 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Grok 4.20 | 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 Pro 0813 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 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 Pro 0813 | SpaceXAI Grok 4.20 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | August 12, 2026 | March 31, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 2M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.66 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.98 | $2.50 |
| Coding index | 56.1 | 33.3 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.10 | $0.72 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 better than Grok 4.20 for coding?
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 for coding: it scores 56.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.3 for Grok 4.20. Pick Grok 4.20 for a larger context window (2M against 1.05M tokens) and work measured by ARC-AGI-2 or TaxEval (Vals AI), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Grok 4.20?
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens; Grok 4.20 costs $1.25 and $2.50. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.10 and Grok 4.20 $0.72.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Grok 4.20?
Grok 4.20, with 2M tokens against 1.05M.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Grok 4.20 comparison based on?
26 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Grok 4.20's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.