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DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) vs DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI)

Reading a 26.2K-token pull request costs $0.0346 on DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI), 3.0× the $0.0115 it costs on DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI). DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) is a mid-range model and DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) a economy one. The benchmark cannot separate their recall: DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) minus DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) is +5 pts (95% interval −8 pts to +18 pts).

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) and DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) side by side
FigureDeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI)DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI)
Price tierMid-rangeEconomy
Bugs caughtshare of known bugs54% (better)49%
False alarmsper clean PR2.91.3 (better)
Cost per reviewmeasured$0.0643$0.0178 (better)
Cost per bug caught$0.0872$0.0309 (better)
Exact linecatches on the expected lines89% (better)88%
Review timemean390s137s (better)
Typical review calllist price$0.0442$0.0147 (better)
Input / 1M tokens$1.32$0.44 (better)
Output / 1M tokens$3.96$1.32 (better)
Context window1M1M

Head to head

The known bugs both were scored on, by who caught each in at least one run.

Of 42 known bugs both were scored on: Both 27Only DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) 7Only DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) 3Neither 5

By language

Share of known bugs each model caught, by language
ModelAllTypeScript6 bugsGo4 bugsJava4 bugsRust4 bugsC#3 bugsJavaScript3 bugsKotlin3 bugsPHP3 bugsPython3 bugsRuby3 bugsSwift3 bugsC++2 bugsC1 bug
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI)54%79%25%49%54%59%17%30%69%72%67%75%38%33%
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI)49%46%25%55%46%22%56%61%78%61%44%67%50%0%

Where they differ

Of the 42 known bugs both were scored on, both caught 27 and neither caught 5. DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) caught 7 bugs that DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) missed: 2 in TypeScript, 1 in C, 1 in C++, 1 in C#, 1 in Ruby and 1 in Rust. DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) caught 3 bugs that DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) missed: 1 in Go, 1 in JavaScript and 1 in Rust, most of them concurrency bugs.

On pull requests with no known bug, DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) raised 2.9 false alarms per review and DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) 1.3. A measured review cost $0.0643 on DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI), 3.6× the cost of $0.0178 on DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI).

Each known bug, and how often each model caught it
Pull requestLanguage · kindDeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI)DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI)
OrchardCMS/OrchardCoreSimplify using `StringValues` in Liquid templatesC# · Security3/30/3
trpc/trpcfix(server): pass maxDurationMs timeout signal to subscription handlersTypeScript · Concurrency2/20/1
TanStack/queryfix(query-core): fix hydration bugs for already resolved promisesTypeScript · Logic3/40/4
nushell/nushellreorganize nushell configurationRust · Error handling3/40/4
rails/railsReimplement Action Cable redis adapter with redis-clientRuby · Logic2/40/3
c-ares/c-aresEvent Thread could stall when not notified of new queries on existing connections that are in a bad stateC · Resource handling1/30/3
ggml-org/llama.cpprpc : cache and reuse compute graphsC++ · Security1/40/3
denoland/denoperf(libs/core): poll only ready handles and yield between I/O batchesRust · Concurrency0/41/3
golang/gocrypto/tls: add LocalCertificate to ConnectionStateGo · Logic0/43/4
pinojs/thread-streamrefactor: replace setTimeout with Atomics.waitAsyncJavaScript · Concurrency0/43/3

Defects caught over all runs: a PR reviewed three times with one known bug shows 3/3 when it was caught every time.

Every bug each was scored on: DeepSeek V4 Pro (Workers AI) and DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI).