# DeepSeek V4-Pro Matches Claude on Real Coding Tasks at a Fraction of the Cost

- slug: 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.

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