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DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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... according to grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning who was the judge, on 4 tasks in total, score was 38 to 33 so obviously huge conclusions can be made.

> We ran 4 fresh text tasks, generated on the fly for this matchup so neither model could prepare in advance, and had grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning score each one. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro scored 38.0 to OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro's 33.0.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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... according to grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning who was the judge, on 4 tasks in total, score was 38 to 33 so obviously huge conclusions can be made. > We ran 4 fresh text tasks, generated on the fly for this matchup so neither model could prepare in advance, and had grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning score each one. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro scored 38.0 to OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro's 33.0.

grok-4-1-fast was retired about a month ago.

Requests to grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning now silently route to grok-4.3 (a 5x more expensive model), with reasoning set to "none".

https://docs.x.ai/developers/migration/may-15-retirement

TFA was published today, which implies grok-4.3 was used.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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... according to grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning who was the judge, on 4 tasks in total, score was 38 to 33 so obviously huge conclusions can be made. > We ran 4 fresh text tasks, generated on the fly for this matchup so neither model could prepare in advance, and had grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning score each one. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro scored 38.0 to OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro's 33.0.

Pretty small sample size here, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that DeepSeek and friends will start to put some serious downward pressure on frontier lab token pricing.

Hopefully this dynamic continues long enough to make local/private inference the leading solution for coding.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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I tried adding GPT 5.5 Pro to a vulnerability scanning benchmark I made (https://swelljoe.com/post/will-it-mythos/), and it blew through the $100 budget limit halfway through. DeepSeek V4 Pro cost about a dollar for the whole benchmark. GPT Pro cost an average of $22 per case (a case could be 1-5 files with a recent known vulnerability, usually just a single file and a prompt along the lines of "does this file have any vulnerabilities").

GPT 5.5 Pro found two out of four cases that it got to before blowing its budget. Maybe it would have been the best of the bunch with infinite budget, but Opus 4.8, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and MiMo 2.5 Pro found four of nine of the bugs. Opus was an order of magnitude cheaper than GPT 5.5 Pro (and something like 30% cheaper than GPT 5.5), DeepSeek and MiMo were two orders of magnitude cheaper at roughly a dime per case.

GPT Pro also chews a lot and a long time, relatively speaking.

I can't come up with a use case where I can rationally spend ~31 times what Opus costs to use GPT 5.5 Pro, and I won't be doing any more benchmarking with it.

Given how much token costs are becoming an issue people talk about, the fact that there are models that cost dramatically less than the big American providers is going to be an issue for Anthropic and OpenAI. I'm happy to pay a premium (within reason) for the best model for interactive coding, but for API use, where having the model repeat it itself, compare against other models, have models judge other models work, etc. is not time-consuming for a human and is just a matter of implementing the harnesses and framework for proving correctness, I can't come up with a reason to spend ten or two hundred times as much as DeepSeek.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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post #7

I tried adding GPT 5.5 Pro to a vulnerability scanning benchmark I made ( https://swelljoe.com/post/will-it-mythos/ ), and it blew through the $100 budget limit halfway through. DeepSeek V4 Pro cost about a dollar for the whole benchmark. GPT Pro cost an average of $22 per case (a case could be 1-5 files with a recent known vulnerability, usually just a single file and a prompt along the lines of "does this file have…

Can you include GPT 5.5 non-pro (extra high thinking I guess) in your comparison? GPT Pro is the "I am willing to torch cash for a sooometimes slighty better result" option, not the one people are actually expected to use daily. That's probably part of the reason it's not in Codex

Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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post #7

I tried adding GPT 5.5 Pro to a vulnerability scanning benchmark I made ( https://swelljoe.com/post/will-it-mythos/ ), and it blew through the $100 budget limit halfway through. DeepSeek V4 Pro cost about a dollar for the whole benchmark. GPT Pro cost an average of $22 per case (a case could be 1-5 files with a recent known vulnerability, usually just a single file and a prompt along the lines of "does this file have…

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Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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post #7

I tried adding GPT 5.5 Pro to a vulnerability scanning benchmark I made ( https://swelljoe.com/post/will-it-mythos/ ), and it blew through the $100 budget limit halfway through. DeepSeek V4 Pro cost about a dollar for the whole benchmark. GPT Pro cost an average of $22 per case (a case could be 1-5 files with a recent known vulnerability, usually just a single file and a prompt along the lines of "does this file have…

Where do you run DeepSeek?
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