DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Saba
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads Saba on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 36.0 to 6.5, and Saba costs 3.3x less per output token ($0.60 vs $1.98 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 3 benchmarks have a result for both.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Saba: which to pick
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a coding score, 56.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Saba has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Saba for output tokens 3.3x cheaper ($0.60 vs $1.98 per million).
- Shared results
- 3
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 only
- 75
- Saba only
- 1
- Like-for-like categories
- 2 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 Pro 0813 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads, 36.0 against 6.5.
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
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a GPQA Diamond result, 92.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a MMLU Pro result, 87.0%.
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
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 takes 1.05M tokens against 33K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Saba
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $0.0016, Saba $0.0005 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has the number, $0.10.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 56.1 from 5 benchmarks, Saba not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Reasoning, 43.6 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run): DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 92.8% against Saba 42.4%, 50.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $1.98 against Saba $0.60 per million output tokens, 3.3x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 takes 1.05M tokens, Saba 33K.
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 | Saba | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 3 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index21 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | 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% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 96.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 14.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 82.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 41.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| 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% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| 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 |
| FrontierCode | 28.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| WeirdML | 66.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| 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 17 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 36.0 | 6.5 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.6 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 41.3 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 1.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 50.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 26.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 40.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 10.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 52.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 47.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.8% | 42.4% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 41.0% | 4.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 90.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| 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 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 87.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 82.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 65.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 42.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 61.1% | Only Saba measured |
| 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 6 boards here | |||
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 9 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index19 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 53.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 80.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 80.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| DTBench | 93.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMCA | 45.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 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 27 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Saba | 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
Saba costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Saba costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Saba 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 | Mistral Saba |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | August 12, 2026 | February 17, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 33K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.66 | $0.20 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.98 | $0.60 |
| Coding index | 56.1 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.10 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 better than Saba for coding?
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a coding score, 56.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Saba has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Saba for output tokens 3.3x cheaper ($0.60 vs $1.98 per million).
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Saba?
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens; Saba costs $0.20 and $0.60. Cost per solved task is known for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 only.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Saba?
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, with 1.05M tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Saba comparison based on?
3 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Saba's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.