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DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) vs Grok 4.1 Fast: 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
Grok 4.1 Fast Quality
40.8
Quality delta
+38.3DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) leads
Value delta
-2.7Grok 4.1 Fast leads
Buyer summary
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) leads Quality by 38.3 points. Grok 4.1 Fast leads Value by 2.7 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.
xAI's low-cost, long-context Grok for fast tool workflows, support, research triage, and high-volume automation.
Monthly price
X Premium+: Price unavailable
App access
Grok
Conversation benchmark
Unavailable
Verified vendor fact
Consumer plan pricing was not available in the current snapshot.
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.
Grok 4.1 Fast
Q 40.8
V 72.8
Quality rank 10 and value rank 5 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
Grok 4.1 Fast
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
X Premium+: Price unavailable
Unavailable
Hosted app: Grok
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
Grok 4.1 Fast
Verified Apr 7, 2026
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
17.6%
Third-party HLE evaluation page | Replaces the prior inflated Grok 4.1 Fast HLE row.
ARC-AGI-2
Novel pattern reasoning
16.0%
ARC Prize leaderboard | ARC-AGI-2 is shown as supplementary evidence only and is not currently included in the PickAI Quality Score.
MathArena
Expected Performance
49.9%
MathArena models leaderboard | MathArena is shown as supplementary evidence only and is not currently included in the PickAI Quality Score.
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
Grok 4.1 Fast
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
xAI's low-cost, long-context Grok for fast tool workflows, support, research triage, and high-volume automation.
Grok 4.1 Fast is the practical, budget-oriented Grok model: very large context, low token pricing, fast responses, and support for tool-heavy workflows. Its strongest buyer case is not being the smartest model in the market; it is giving teams a cheap way to run long-context support, research triage, monitoring, summarization, routing, and agentic utility tasks inside the Grok/xAI ecosystem. The 2M-token context window and low per-token pricing make it appealing for workloads that need to scan or carry a lot of information without paying flagship rates. The tradeoff is quality ceiling: for difficult legal, financial, coding, or scientific reasoning, buyers should test it against stronger frontier models before relying on it as the final answer. Bottom line: Grok 4.1 Fast is a credible high-volume operations model, best when speed, context, and cost matter more than top-end reasoning depth.
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