# DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Grok 4.7

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the cheaper of the 2: for the same tokens, 3 read for each 1 written, Grok 4.7 costs 1.5 times as much. Below are both price lists, what 8 everyday jobs cost a month on each, and how many tokens the same text takes on each, which can change the answer.

- Page, with a calculator for your own job: https://tecyfy.com/prices/compare/deepseek-v4-pro-vs-grok-4-7
- Makers: DeepSeek V4 Pro from DeepSeek, Grok 4.7 from xAI

## Price per million tokens, in US dollars

| | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4.7 |
| --- | --: | --: |
| Input | $1.32 | $2 |
| Cached input | $0.044 | $0.50 |
| Cache write | not listed | not listed |
| Output | $3.96 | $6 |
| Blend, 3 read for each 1 written | $1.98 | $3 |
| Batch input | not listed | not listed |
| Batch output | not listed | not listed |
| Long prompt input (above 200K on Grok 4.7) | $1.32 | $4 |
| Long prompt output | $3.96 | $12 |
| Context window, tokens | 1M | 500K |
| Capability score (Epoch Capabilities Index; GPT-5 is 150) | 155 | 154 |
| Longest answer, tokens | not listed | not listed |

DeepSeek V4 Pro: The peak-hours price. Off-peak hours are half. Peak is 01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC on weekdays.

## The same text, counted by each maker

Our lesson "How AI writes" (https://tecyfy.com/learn/how-ai-works/how-ai-writes), about 1,700 words of English:

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 2,063 tokens. Counted with the tokenizer DeepSeek publishes with V4-Pro and V4.1 Flash, the same models its API serves.
- Grok 4.7: about 2,100 tokens. xAI publishes neither its tokenizer nor a rule for estimating. The figure is OpenAI's o200k_base count, a rough guide only.

## What 8 everyday jobs cost a month on each

Each job at its usual runs a day, for 30 days, at the standard price.

| Job | Tokens in, out, runs a day | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Grok 4.7 |
| --- | --- | --: | --: |
| A chat question | 300, 500, 100 | $7.13 | $10.80 |
| A hard question, with thinking | 300, 1,400, 100 | $17.82 | $27.00 |
| A long report, summarised | 60,000, 2,000, 20 | $52.27 | $79.20 |
| A 40-turn agent task | 2,800,000, 40,000, 10 | $192 | $618 |
| A support bot's reply | 4,000, 300, 2,000 | $235 | $408 |
| Sort a message into a category | 250, 5, 50,000 | $525 | $795 |
| Read an invoice into fields | 1,500, 250, 1,000 | $89.10 | $135 |
| Review a pull request | 25,000, 4,500, 50 | $76.23 | $116 |

## Questions

### Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Grok 4.7?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper: $1.32 per million tokens read and $3.96 per million written, against $2 and $6 on Grok 4.7. On a mix of 3 tokens read for each 1 written, Grok 4.7 costs 1.5 times as much.

### Which is better, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Grok 4.7?

They cannot be told apart on the Epoch Capabilities Index, an independent score from Epoch AI that combines over 50 benchmarks: DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 155 and Grok 4.7 154, within the range of doubt around each (GPT-5 is 150). So choose on price and on 10 tasks of your own.

### What does a support bot cost a month on DeepSeek V4 Pro and Grok 4.7?

At 2,000 replies a day, each reading 4,000 tokens (50 percent of them from cache) and writing 300, it costs $235 a month on DeepSeek V4 Pro and $408 on Grok 4.7: Grok 4.7 costs 1.7 times as much for this job.

### What does an AI agent task cost on DeepSeek V4 Pro and Grok 4.7?

One 40-turn task that reads 2,800,000 tokens in all, 90 percent of them from cache, and writes 40,000, costs 64 cents on DeepSeek V4 Pro and $2.06 on Grok 4.7. At 10 tasks a day that is $192 and $618 a month.

### Which has the larger context window, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Grok 4.7?

DeepSeek V4 Pro, with 1M tokens against 500K on Grok 4.7. The window holds your instructions, the files you attach, the conversation so far and the answer, all at once.

### Does the same text take the same number of tokens on DeepSeek V4 Pro and Grok 4.7?

No. Our lesson "How AI writes", 1,700 words long, is 2,063 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Pro and about 2,100 on Grok 4.7. Each maker cuts text its own way, and every extra token is paid for at the model's price.

### Can I pay less on DeepSeek V4 Pro and Grok 4.7 for work that can wait?

Not with a batch price: neither maker's price page lists one for these models. A cache still lowers the price of text the model reads again.

## Sources

- [DeepSeek: API prices](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing)
- [xAI: API prices](https://docs.x.ai/docs/models)
- [Epoch Capabilities Index, by Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/eci)

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