Claims and evidence
- Status AvailableServed in the DeepSeek API as deepseek-v4-pro on 2026-10-01; weights downloadable from Hugging Face. The V4.1-Flash news post announced that deepseek-v4-pro requests would route to V4.1-Flash from 2026-09-14, but the change log entry of the same day says the V4 Pro API continues after 2026-09-14, and the pricing page still lists DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813. Primary source[4]Model Details: Model version [3]Date: 2026-09-10 [2]License
- Revision of DeepSeek-V4-Pro Primary source[2]Introduction [3]Date: 2026-08-13
- Change · Architecture Adds an attached DSpark speculative decoding module on top of the preview's model structure.Compared with DeepSeek-V4-Pro Primary source[2]Introduction
- Change · Tool use Natively supports the OpenAI Responses API format, adapted for Codex with a one-click setup script.Compared with DeepSeek-V4-Pro Primary source[3]
- Change · Other DeepSeek reports improved agent capabilities over the preview, especially in production environments.Compared with DeepSeek-V4-Pro Primary source[2]Introduction
- Change · Other Released together with peak and off-peak API prices, with off-peak at half the peak rate, effective 2026-08-16 at 16:00 UTC.Compared with DeepSeek-V4-Pro Primary source[1]
- Input textThe API lists vision as not supported for deepseek-v4-pro. Primary source[4]Model Details: Features, Vision not supported
- Feature Reasoning modeReasoning effort levels low, high and max; thinking and non-thinking modes in the API. Primary source[1] [2]Chat Template [4]Model Details: Thinking mode
- Feature Function calling Primary source[4]Model Details: Features, Tool Calls
- Open weights YesWeights under the MIT License. Primary source[2]License
- Context window 1M tokens Primary source[4]Model Details: Context length
- Access API, consumer app, Open-weights download Primary source[1] [3]Date: 2026-08-13 [2]License
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Based on
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro · 24 April 2026 · revision
Variants and derived
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Siblings
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base · inline variant of DeepSeek-V4-Pro
All ancestors
- DeepSeek LLM · 29 November 2023
- DeepSeek-V2 · 6 May 2024
- DeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628 · 28 June 2024
- DeepSeek-V2.5 · 5 September 2024
- DeepSeek-V2.5-1210 · 10 December 2024
- DeepSeek-V3 · 26 December 2024
- DeepSeek-V3-0324 · 24 March 2025
- DeepSeek-V3.1 · 21 August 2025
- DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus · 22 September 2025
- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp · 29 September 2025
- DeepSeek-V3.2 · 1 December 2025
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro · 24 April 2026
All descendants
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Variants
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