DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is cheaper than Step 5 Preview at $0.66/M vs $1/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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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| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.66/M tokens | $1/M tokens |
| Output price | $1.98/M tokens | $2.7/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Weights | Open | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Aug 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $6.60 | $10.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
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.
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.
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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