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DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Announced Aug 13, 2026

V4 Pro reaches general availability

01

What could it do?

DeepSeek rolled out V4 Pro on its app, website and API.

02

What changed?

Improved agents and reasoning controls.

WHY IT MATTERED

Moved beyond the preview.

03

Where it fell short

Separate snapshot from April.

Sources checked Oct 7, 2026

Release facts were checked against the sources below. Performance claims belong to the developers; we have not independently tested these models.

Developer announcement or release log

Benchmark results

EPOCH AI CAPABILITY ESTIMATE
155.3index points
Tested variant: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Source interval: 153.5 to 157.4Variant date in source: Aug 13, 2026

A benchmark estimate, not a percentage or capability multiplier. Reasoning settings are not specified in this source table. Historical estimates can change in later snapshots.

Epoch AI methodology ↗Download the source snapshotChecked Oct 7, 2026 · CC BY 4.0
PUBLISHED BENCHMARK RESULT
36.0index points
Tested: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max)Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Selected highest effort variant where available in the current table. Starred partial results are excluded. Claude fallback configurations can use other models when safeguards intervene.

Source: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index ↗Download selected resultsChecked Oct 8, 2026
PUBLISHED BENCHMARK RESULT
1465rating points
Tested: deepseek-v4-pro-high-20260813Text Arena Overall · October 8, 2026Reported interval: 1458 to 14729,815 votes

One explicitly named variant per release. Scores come from the same Overall snapshot; preliminary entries and reported intervals are preserved. These are current ratings of earlier variants, not their launch day ratings.

Source: Text Arena ↗Download selected resultsChecked Oct 8, 2026
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