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DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) vs GPT-5 Mini: pricing, Quality, Value, and benchmarks
Side-by-side buyer comparison built from the current published top 10 snapshot. Quality and Value stay deterministic, while editorial verdict excerpts remain clearly AI-labeled.
Verified evidenceVerified evidence
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) Quality
79.1
GPT-5 Mini Quality
44.2
Quality delta
+34.9DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) leads
Value delta
-1.6GPT-5 Mini leads
Buyer summary
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) leads Quality by 34.9 points. GPT-5 Mini leads Value by 1.6 points.
Snapshot freshness
Snapshot May 5, 2026. Both pages link back to the same published roster and methodology, so the comparison stays on one deterministic evidence set.
GPT-5 Mini has been refreshed from current public source data.
Monthly price
ChatGPT Plus: $20/month
App access
ChatGPT
Conversation benchmark
~5,128 chats
Verified vendor fact
Consumer plan pricing is grounded in the current official vendor plan page.
Verified vendor fact
Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.
Deterministic scores
Quality and Value comparison
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Q 79.1
V 70.1
Quality rank 4 and value rank 1 in the current published roster.
GPT-5 Mini
Q 44.2
V 71.7
Quality rank 9 and value rank 7 in the current published roster.
Buyer access
Pricing, app access, and Conversation Value
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
DeepSeek API: pay as you go
Free tier
Hosted app: DeepSeek
GPT-5 Mini
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
ChatGPT Plus: $20/month
~5,128 chats
Hosted app: ChatGPT
Benchmark evidence
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Verified May 5, 2026
Humanity's Last Exam
Pass@1
37.7%
NVIDIA DeepSeek V4 Pro model card | NVIDIA-hosted model card row for DeepSeek V4 Pro Max; use as sourced provisional benchmark evidence.
GPQA Diamond
Pass@1
90.1%
NVIDIA DeepSeek V4 Pro model card | NVIDIA-hosted model card row for DeepSeek V4 Pro Max; use as sourced provisional benchmark evidence.
SWE-Bench Pro
Software engineering task resolution
55.4%
BenchLM AI coding leaderboard | BenchLM May 1, 2026 coding leaderboard row for DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max).
MRCR v2
1M long-context
83.5%
NVIDIA DeepSeek V4 Pro model card | NVIDIA-hosted model card row for DeepSeek V4 Pro Max.
Benchmark evidence
GPT-5 Mini
Verified Apr 7, 2026
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
19.44%
Scale Labs Humanity's Last Exam leaderboard | Scale-confirmed HLE row.
GPQA Diamond
Normalized quality input
82.3%
Google DeepMind Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite comparison table | Vendor-published cross-model comparison table. Treat this as current official evidence, not neutral third-party benchmarking.
ARC-AGI-2
Novel pattern reasoning
4.4%
ARC Prize leaderboard | ARC-AGI-2 is shown as supplementary evidence only and is not currently included in the PickAI Quality Score.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Agentic terminal task completion
34.8%
Terminal-Bench 2.0 official leaderboard | Official Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard row for spoox-m + GPT-5-Mini; accuracy 34.8% +/- 2.7.
Editorial excerpt
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) is published here because it has sourced SWE-Bench Pro evidence and a sourced DeepSeek V4 Pro model record.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) is included in the coding leaderboard because current public sources attach it to SWE-Bench Pro, LiveCodeBench, and related coding-agent benchmarks. Treat the row as benchmark evidence first; regulated and sensitive deployments should review DeepSeek policy, hosting, and data controls before use.
Editorial excerpt
GPT-5 Mini
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
GPT-5 Mini has been refreshed from current public source data.
GPT-5 Mini has been rebuilt from freshly acquired public source data. Buyer-facing editorial prose updates after the protected AI overlay refresh completes.
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