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DeepSeek vs Grok
Compare DeepSeek vs Grok: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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chat.deepseek.com ↗ Grok
grok.com ↗ Pricing
Free tier
Fully free in the consumer app
Free with X account, throttled
Standard plan
API only — API only
SuperGrok — $30/mo
Top plan
API only — API only
Heavy — $300/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$0.27 Best
$5.00
API output / 1M tokens
$1.10 Best
$15.00
Capability
Context window
128K
256K Best
Max output tokens
8K
16K Best
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
2026-02
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
70% Best
68%
Math (AIME 2025)
72%
75% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
73%
76% Best
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1356
1378 Best
Features
Image input
Partial
✓
Voice mode
—
Partial
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
Partial
✓
Image generation
—
✓
Code execution
Partial
Partial
Agent / tool use
—
Partial
Persistent memory
—
Partial
DeepSeek
Open weights. ~20× cheaper API than GPT-5.2. Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations for some.
Grok
Real-time X data feed. Image gen via Aurora. Less guarded tone than other frontier models.
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