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DeepSeek V4 vs Llama 4 Scout

DeepSeek vs Meta. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

DeepSeek V4 leads on LMSYS ELO (1334 vs 1265). DeepSeek V4 is ~2.6× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

DeepSeek

The shock-the-market moment of 2026. Frontier coding quality at 1/50th the price of Opus.

Unbeatable $/qualityOpen weightsGreat at code

Meta

The 70B workhorse open-weight. Fits on a single H100, beloved by self-hosters.

Single-GPU deployableDirt cheap on aggregatorsStrong fine-tuning base

Pricing

Input / 1M$0.14$0.35

Output / 1M$0.28$0.80

Context128K128K

Max output16K8K

LicenseOpen weightsOpen weights

Released2026-02-202025-12-10

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1334.01265.0

MMLU Pro85.477.2

HumanEval91.582.4

SWE-Bench54.1—

MATH88.772.5

IFEval85.884.1

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.0022$0.0057

Review a 500-line pull request$0.0017$0.0044

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0006$0.0017

Extract structured data from a resume$0.0010$0.0026

Debug a stack trace with context$0.0014$0.0037

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.

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