BenchLeader

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GPT-5.6 Sol

Verdict
  • GPT-5.6 Sol (high) leads on quality: 68.2 vs 59.5.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro (high) is stronger in instruction following.
  • GPT-5.6 Sol (high) is stronger in agents & tools, composite, knowledge, long context, coding, multimodal, reasoning.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro (high) is 15× cheaper ($0.548 vs $8.00 per 1M blended).
MetricDeepSeek V4 Pro (high)GPT-5.6 Sol (high)
BenchLeader Index59.568.2
Agents & tools score63.887.9
Composite score67.182.7
Instruction following score69.667.8
Knowledge score59.173.8
Long context score61.667.4
Coding score72.4
Multimodal score66.4
Reasoning score63.3
Blended price $/M$0.548$8.00
Output speed65 tok/s59 tok/s
Time to first answer32.3 s31.0 s
Context window1M1M
SciCode56.9%
WeirdML88.8%
LMArena Agent4.4
AA Intelligence Index30.142.5
IFBench71.3%69.2%
AA-LCR70.3%81.7%
MMMU-Pro81.8%
AA-Omniscience-10.620.4
Terminal-Bench Hard41.7%62.1%
GPQA Diamond (AA)90.5%92.8%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)35.2%46.0%
SciCode (AA)57.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)94.2%83.3%
EnigmaEval37.1%
ARC-AGI-197.0%
ARC-AGI-285.4%
ARC-AGI-32.2%

Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GPT-5.6 Sol: questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than GPT-5.6 Sol?
GPT-5.6 Sol (high) leads on quality: 68.2 vs 59.5. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-5.6 Sol (high) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than GPT-5.6 Sol for agentic tasks?
GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in agentic tasks (88 vs 64 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or GPT-5.6 Sol?
DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper: $0.548 against $8.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, DeepSeek V4 Pro or GPT-5.6 Sol?
DeepSeek V4 Pro streams faster: 65 against 59 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Both accept 1M tokens of context.