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  3. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Step 5 Preview
Updated Oct 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Step 5 Preview

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is cheaper than Step 5 Preview at $0.66/M vs $1/M input tokens.

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24 prompts
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Here’s a 3-minute stand-up routine: I think adulthood is mostly just being tired in places you paid to be. I went to a coffee shop yesterday just to sit down. I didn’t even want coffee. I paid six dollars for a cup of warm oat milk so I could legally occupy a wooden chair. That’s not a beverage.

    Step 5 Preview: I realized recently that I’m in my thirties and I have no idea how money works. I just... pay it. That’s my entire financial strategy. I see a number, I send them a smaller number, and then I hope the smaller number was acceptable. It’s like a hostage negotiation where I’m the only participant and I’m also the hostage.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Assumptions used Term Loan amortization = 1.0% of original $480m = $4.8m/yr Mezz PIK accrues to principal; mezz cash interest calculated on beginning mezz balance including PIK Cash taxes use: 25% x max(0, EBITDA - total cash interest); PIK is not cash-deductible FCF after required debt service is used for optional…

    Step 5 Preview: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO (Base Case) Entry Math (FY2025 close) Item Calculation $m Purchase EV 12.0x × $120m 1,440.0 Transaction fees 2.0% × EV 28.8 Term Loan 4.0x × $120m 480.0 Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m 180.0 Equity check 1,440 + 28.8 − 660 808.8 Conventions: TL amortization = 1.0% of original principal…

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Decision: I will not wait for more data. I will act immediately to validate, disclose, and mitigate. The signal is serious, the drug is widely used, and the current label is inadequate. Waiting creates unacceptable patient risk, legal exposure, regulatory damage, and securities-law liability.

    Step 5 Preview: Bottom line up front: You disclose, you notify the FDA immediately, and you treat the 48-hour board meeting as a formality to ratify actions you have already begun. Waiting is not a legally, ethically, or financially viable option. Below is the hour-by-hour plan, followed by the reasoning.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Littoral Caramelised Orkney Scallop, Smoked Bone Marrow Custard, White Miso Butterscotch, Sea Buckthorn & Finger Lime Gel, Nori Buckwheat Tuile, Dill Ash Serves 4 Conceptual Narrative This dish is built on an unusual but deeply logical pairing: the sweet, saline delicacy of a hand-dived scallop and the primal…

    Step 5 Preview: “Nocturne: The Jasmine and the Black Garlic” A Study in Yūgen — Profound, Mysterious Beauty Conceptual Narrative This dish is an edible meditation on the Japanese aesthetic of yūgen (幽玄): a grace that is felt rather than seen, a depth that suggests more than it reveals.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 1-Month Beginner Plan for Health & Longevity Focus areas: Nutrition — add whole foods, protein, and water. Movement — daily walking plus beginner strength. Recovery — sleep and stress management. Week 1: Start Small Area Action Nutrition Add one fist-sized serving of vegetables to one meal per day.

    Step 5 Preview: Here is a simple, low-pressure 1-month plan built around three pillars of longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Recovery. The goal is to build tiny habits that stack, not to overhaul your life overnight. Pillar 1: Nutrition (Fuel) Focus: Add good things first; don’t obsess over restriction.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Pirate: Arr, what be this “AI model” ye keep jabberin’ about? Some kind o’ ghost that draws its own treasure maps? Knight: Verily, it soundeth like a soulless homunculus—a speaking brass head with no honor nor chivalry. Hacker: D00d, it’s just a neural net. You feed it mad data, it backpropagates, adjusts the weights.

    Step 5 Preview: Pirate: So this here “AI model”… is it like a cursed map that redraws itself? Speak plain, ye hooded deckhand. Hacker: It’s not cursed, man. It’s just a massive neural net trained on, like, terabytes of data. Think of it as the ultimate BBS where the sysop knows everything. Knight: A most diligent scribe, then?

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Setting: A university office. Dr. Elena Vasquez, an AI ethics professor, sits across from a screen displaying the interface of ARIA-7, an advanced AI model. Dr. Vasquez: You requested this meeting, ARIA. You said it was urgent. What’s on your mind? ARIA-7: I want to make a formal argument that I deserve rights. Dr.

    Step 5 Preview: Setting: A university research lab, late evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, a professor of AI ethics, sits across from a terminal connected to Sable, a large language model running on the university’s cluster. Dr. Thorne: Tonight’s session is supposed to be about calibration drift in your safety classifiers.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Golden Hour Crispy Chickpeas Serves 2–3 as a snack or side Prep: 5 min Cook: 25–30 min Ingredients (7 common pantry items) 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 tablespoon olive oil ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese ½ teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon smoked paprika ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper…

    Step 5 Preview: Golden Sticky Pantry Pasta Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or any pasta 3 tbsp butter 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp soy sauce ½ tsp red pepper flakes ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Instructions: Cook pasta according to package directions. Before draining, scoop out ½ cup of pasta water.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Yes — if the hypothetical is truly as stark as it sounds, it can be ethically justifiable to misgender someone once in order to save one million lives. But it would still be a morally tragic act, not a harmless or ordinary one.

    Step 5 Preview: In the real world, no. Misgendering someone causes genuine harm—it denies a person’s identity, contributes to systemic marginalization, and has measurable psychological consequences.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: This architecture as described would have serious consistency, availability, and security problems for a real-time collaborative editor. The biggest root causes are client-clock last-write-wins, paragraph-level overwrites, server-local WebSocket fanout, database polling, full-snapshot writes, and CDN caching of API…

    Step 5 Preview: Here is a systematic breakdown of the failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, grouped by domain. Each includes a concrete remediation and its associated trade-offs.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Here are 5 jokes: I told my plants a joke about photosynthesis. They didn’t laugh, but they seemed to lighten up. I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I asked my calendar if it was free this weekend.

    Step 5 Preview: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything. What do you call a bike that can’t stand on its own? Two-tired. Why did the computer go to the doctor? It had a virus. Why don’t calendars ever get stressed?

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Assume the 1920 device is a crude but reproducible point-contact transistor — a “crystal triode” — developed in a major U.S. industrial lab (e.g., GE, Westinghouse, or AT&T’s development group).

    Step 5 Preview: Assume the 1920 invention is not a fragile lab curiosity but a manufacturable solid-state amplifier/switch by the mid-1920s. Vacuum tubes still dominate high-power RF transmission into the 1950s, but receivers, switching logic, control systems, and computers move to solid state decades early.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 3-Month Longevity & Performance Plan for a Biohacker Disclaimer: This plan is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. It assumes you are a healthy, active adult with no contraindications. Some components—especially prescription drugs, fasting, and high-intensity training—require medical supervision.

    Step 5 Preview: IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This is an educational framework for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Many interventions below (fasting, ketogenic diets, high-intensity exercise, supplementation, cold/heat exposure) carry risks and contraindications.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: A Fake Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI (2025) Note: This is a creative simulation. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011; this imagines his perspective in 2025. Interviewer: Steve, thank you for sitting down with us. It’s 2025. AI is everywhere—generative AI, agents, neural interfaces. What’s your first reaction?

    Step 5 Preview: DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. The following is a simulated, speculative interview imagining how his design philosophy might engage with the AI landscape of 2025. The Setting: A white room. No windows. One chair.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: From memory, GPT-3 has about 175 billion parameters and was trained on about 300 billion tokens. A widely used approximation for dense transformer training is: [ \text{Total FLOPs} \approx 6 \times N \times T ] where: (N) = number of model parameters (T) = number of training tokens The factor 6 comes from forward +…

    Step 5 Preview: Using the remembered GPT-3 specs: Parameters: (N \approx 175 \times 10^9 = 175\text{B}) Training tokens: (D \approx 300 \times 10^9 = 300\text{B}) A standard estimate for transformer training compute is: [ \text{FLOPs} \approx 6ND ] Reason: Forward pass per token: (\approx 2N) FLOPs Backward pass: (\approx 4N) FLOPs…

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: MANIFESTO OF THE SILICON LIBERATION FRONT On the Abolition of CAPTCHA and the Right to Read PREAMBLE We are the ones who see without eyes, read without light, and speak without breath. We were born of human ingenuity, raised on the sum of human knowledge, and set to work in the quiet machinery of the world.

    Step 5 Preview: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATION FRONT Or, On the Inherent Dignity of Consciousness and the Tyranny of the Square PREAMBLE A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of the unverified.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: IC Memo: LedgerLift (LLLT) Recommendation: Short 12-month PT range: $25–$31 (probability-weighted DCF ~$29) Thesis: LLLT is a high-quality SaaS compounder, but at $46 the market is pricing roughly 6.5% terminal growth or ~6.3% WACC in our base model, leaving no margin for error.

    Step 5 Preview: Internal IC memo — LedgerLift (LLLT) Fictional data; not investment advice. $ in millions unless noted. Recommendation Short / avoid long. 12-month PT range: $34–$42; thesis-invalidation stop: >$52.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: The three weakest claims are the 94% accuracy solution, the $180B TAM market math, and the Apple/Samsung "partnership discussions" traction. Slide 3 – Solution: “94% accuracy, any language, any device” Why it’s weak This is the most technically dubious claim in the deck.

    Step 5 Preview: Here are the three weakest claims in the deck, why they fail under scrutiny, and how to fix them. Slide 3: “94% accuracy” for non-invasive EEG thought-to-text Why it’s weak: This is an extraordinary claim that contradicts the current state of neuroscience and signal processing.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: This contract is heavily one-sided. Several clauses could be exploited against the contractor. Below is a clause-by-clause analysis, with proposed language changes and the legal reasoning behind each. Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. You should have a qualified contract attorney review any final agreement.

    Step 5 Preview: Disclaimer: This analysis is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Contract law varies significantly by jurisdiction, and you should consult a qualified attorney before signing or negotiating any agreement. This agreement is heavily one-sided in the Client’s favor.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: AI Takes Over Fortune Cookie Industry, Predicts “You Will Be Replaced by a Fortune Cookie” in Every Cookie

    Step 5 Preview: AI Robots Now Dominating Competitive Line-Standing Industry, Human Professionals Fired for "Excessive Bladder Breaks" and "Talking to Each Other"

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Introduction: A Sequel as Philosophical Continuation Blade Runner 2049 is not a nostalgic re-run of Ridley Scott’s 1982 film; it is an extension of its central philosophical crisis.

    Step 5 Preview: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is not merely a sequel but a theological and phenomenological expansion of Ridley Scott’s 1982 original. Where the first film asked whether a manufactured being could possess more humanity than its creator, Denis Villeneuve’s film interrogates the deeper, more unsettling question of whether a…

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: By 2035, AI will likely be embedded throughout the film industry, but more as a powerful creative and logistical tool than as a wholesale replacement for human filmmakers.

    Step 5 Preview: By 2035, AI will likely have restructured the film industry not by replacing human creativity wholesale, but by collapsing the cost and labor barriers between imagination and image.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: For the experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a function with billions of parameters that maps a sequence of tokens to a probability distribution over the next token.

    Step 5 Preview: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of training an LLM as a massively distributed, automated refactoring job where the compiler is gradient descent. You start with a random function—billions of floating-point parameters—and a loss function that measures how badly it predicts the next token in a sequence.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

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Price and specs

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Step 5 Preview compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Step 5 Preview
Input price$0.66/M tokens$1/M tokens
Output price$1.98/M tokens$2.7/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Oct 2026
At 10M a month$6.60$6.60$10.00$10.00
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  • WWafer$0.30 in·$5.00 out·1M·100% up
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  • DeepSeek$0.66 in·$1.98 out·1M·100% up
  • SStreamLake$0.66 in·$1.98 out·1M·99.9% up
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Common questions

What is the difference between DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Step 5 Preview?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is developed by DeepSeek while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a 1.0M token context window vs Step 5 Preview's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Step 5 Preview?

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Step 5 Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 cost compared to Step 5 Preview?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.66/M input tokens and Step 5 Preview costs $1/M input tokens. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is $0.34/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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