# DeepSeek V4-Pro Matches Claude on Real Coding Tasks at a Fraction of the Cost - Date: 2026-04-24 - Category: Agentics V4-Pro costs $3.48 per million output tokens — 7.2x less than Claude Opus 4.7 and 8.6x less than GPT-5.5, with comparable benchmark scores on real coding tasks. The catch: OpenClaw integration requires manual configuration. ---