# DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Grok 4

> DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v4-pro-vs-grok-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher in 7 categories and Grok 4 in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 56.5 to 36.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 61.3% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 16% for Grok 4.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 54.3 | 48.1 |
| Rank | 31 | 56 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $0.66 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.98 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.4 (#34)
- Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 66.2% | 45.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1470 | 1408 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | — |
| FrontierCode | 28.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 79.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1582 | — |
| SciCode | 51% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,403 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.8 (#58)
- Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| APEX-Agents | 47.3% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 63% |
| GDPval | — | 21.1% |
| Cybench | — | 43% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 47.3% |
| BALROG | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 66.6% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 3,285 | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.5 (#24)
- Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | 16% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 53.5% | 73.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 90.5% | 66.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 47% | 28% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1461 | 1409 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.31 | 146.44 |
| ForecastBench | 56.1 | 60.9 |
| SimpleBench | — | 60.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 91.3% | — |
| CritPt | 18% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 43% | — |
| DTBench | 93.9% | — |
| LMCA | 45.5% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 40% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.8 (#30)
- Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.6% | 84% |
| LMArena Math | 1455 | 1422 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 64.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 26.8% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 76.6% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 60.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 19.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#31)
- Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91.7% | 87% |
| LMArena Expert | 1464 | 1415 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 52.9% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 72.7% |

## Multimodal

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: —
- Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1210 |
| GeoBench | — | 45% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.4 (#45)
- Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1439 | 1403 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1486 | 1427 |
| LMArena French | 1472 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1458 | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1445 | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | 1447 | 1377 |
| LMArena Russian | 1453 | 1410 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1458 | 1420 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.1 (#47)
- Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1448 | 1387 |
| IFEval | — | 94.9% |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#51)
- Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1458 | 1409 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 94.4% |
| CL-bench Life | 13.5% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.5 (#46)
- Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1451 | 1411 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1446 | 1397 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1467 | 1416 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1553 | — |
| WildBench | — | 79.7% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1166 | — |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than Grok 4?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DeepSeek V4 Pro or Grok 4 better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.4 versus 50.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Pro and Grok 4 share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.