
Grok 4.7 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro
Grok 4.6's price, a bigger base model, and it builds games that hold together. vs DeepSeek's flagship tier — benched head-to-head against its own cheap Flash.
What I tested — same prompt, two models
I run the same fixed prompt set through every new model the day it drops — same string, one shot, single HTML file out — and I score the result 0–10 on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. Below is what came out when I gave the exact same prompts to Grok 4.7 and DeepSeek V4 Pro, side by side, on 11 shared tasks inside the Agent Operating System.
Both models were given identical prompts inside the Agent Operating System — no help, no iteration, no "best of N" tricks. I run each prompt once, save the HTML file the model produces, and score it 0–10 on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. The scoring is mine. The verdicts below are pulled from my source comparison guides at agentos.guide where I publish every score and the reasoning behind it.
Grok 4.7 · Wired into the Agent OS Grok Build tab (4.7 / 4.6 / 4.5 picker, OpenRouter fallback when the CLI is signed out) and benched on twenty skill-infused game builds, each played through its full gameplay arc on a Metal GPU before the vision judge scored the played frame.
DeepSeek V4 Pro · Benched on all 50 GoldieBench tasks via api.deepseek.com with the same pipeline as the Flash 0731 run, then published as a live side-by-side: goldiebench.com/vs-live/deepseek-flash-vs-pro.html loads both builds of every task in twin panes.
Side-by-side on 50 shared tasks
Click any cell to play that model's actual one-shot attempt. Medals are derived from my 0–10 scores per task (highest = 🥇, second = 🥈, third = 🥉).
Strengths & weaknesses I logged
Grok 4.7
Strengths
- Averaged 6.86/10 on the same twenty skill-infused game briefs where Grok 4.6 averaged 5.63, winning 8 of the 11 head-to-heads
- Best one-shots on this run: arcade (8.6), dragonrealm (8.6), flightsim (8.5), every one played on a real GPU before scoring
- Longer reinforcement learning shows: it holds a 40-50KB single-file spec and wires the controls it advertises
- xAI's own coding numbers moved: CursorBench 4.0 46.3% (from 40.4%) and DeepSWE v1.1 71.0% (from 65.2%)
Trade-offs
- 2 of 20 builds died on load or never moved when played — crypt: hud is not a function; voxelcraft: mesh.computeBoundingSphere is not a function file:///Users/j
- Independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 puts it at 46, seven points behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53
- Terminal-Bench 4.0 is the weak spot xAI reports itself: 38.0% at launch
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Strengths
- Flagship reasoning tier on the same official API and 1M context as Flash
- Ran the identical 50-prompt set as V4 Flash 0731 — a clean same-vendor A/B
- Reasoning-first: thinks before writing every build
Trade-offs
- Unranked — builds are on the bench but not yet scored by the Opus vision judge
- Slower and pricier per build than Flash — the whole question is whether that buys quality
Pricing & context — the spec sheet
| Spec | Grok 4.7 | DeepSeek V4 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | xAI | DeepSeek |
| Context window | 500,000 tokens | 1,000,000-token context window |
| Price | $2 in / $6 out per M tokens | API · pro tier |
| Pricing detail | xAI's September 2026 release, priced exactly like Grok 4.6: $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output on the standard tier, $4 / $12 on the Fast tier (double the output speed). OpenRouter lists the same model at $1.60 / $4.80. | DeepSeek's flagship tier, benched on `deepseek-v4-pro` via api.deepseek.com — the exact same 50 one-shot prompts, skill-infused game prompt and pipeline as the V4 Flash 0731 run, so the two runs are directly comparable side by side. DeepSeek's own line on the 0731 Flash refresh is that its post-training now beats the older V4-Pro-Preview — this run tests the current Pro against that claim. |
| Release | 2026-09 | 2026-07 |
| Bench coverage | 11/11 scored · avg 6.86/10 | 0/50 scored · avg — |
The verdict — which should you pick?
Not enough scored shared tasks yet for a head-to-head average. The live demos for both are on the matrix above — play them and form your own opinion.
If you only run one of these inside your stack, the head-to-head average above is the call. If you can run both, my honest play is to wire Grok 4.7 and DeepSeek V4 Pro both into the Agent Operating System and dispatch each from the kanban by task type — one-shot arcade, driving and shooter builds where the whole game has to arrive in a single file → Grok 4.7, checking whether deepseek's pro tier is worth the premium over flash 0731 → DeepSeek V4 Pro. That's the same setup I run for the 4,000+ founders inside the AI Profit Boardroom.
FAQ — Grok 4.7 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro
Which is better, Grok 4.7 or DeepSeek V4 Pro?
On Goldie Bench, Grok 4.7 averages no scored verdicts yet across the shared tasks, with 0 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze overall. DeepSeek V4 Pro averages no scored verdicts yet, with 0 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze. Not enough scored shared tasks yet to call a winner.
How much does Grok 4.7 cost vs DeepSeek V4 Pro?
Grok 4.7: xAI's September 2026 release, priced exactly like Grok 4.6: $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output on the standard tier, $4 / $12 on the Fast tier (double the output speed). OpenRouter lists the same model at $1.60 / $4.80. DeepSeek V4 Pro: DeepSeek's flagship tier, benched on `deepseek-v4-pro` via api.deepseek.com — the exact same 50 one-shot prompts, skill-infused game prompt and pipeline as the V4 Flash 0731 run, so the two runs are directly comparable side by side. DeepSeek's own line on the 0731 Flash refresh is that its post-training now beats the older V4-Pro-Preview — this run tests the current Pro against that claim.
What's the context window for Grok 4.7 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro?
Grok 4.7 has a 500,000 tokens context window. DeepSeek V4 Pro has a 1,000,000-token context window context window.
When should I pick Grok 4.7 over DeepSeek V4 Pro?
Pick Grok 4.7 for: One-shot arcade, driving and shooter builds where the whole game has to arrive in a single file; High-volume agent work priced at half what the other frontier models charge; Grok Build inside the Agent OS: pick 4.7 in the tab and everything it writes lands in the workspace. The trade-off is the weaknesses we logged on the bench: 2 of 20 builds died on load or never moved when played — crypt: hud is not a function; voxelcraft: mesh.computeBoundingSphere is not a function file:///Users/j; Independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 puts it at 46, seven points behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53; Terminal-Bench 4.0 is the weak spot xAI reports itself: 38.0% at launch.
When should I pick DeepSeek V4 Pro over Grok 4.7?
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro for: Checking whether DeepSeek's pro tier is worth the premium over Flash 0731; Hard single-shot builds where extra reasoning depth may pay off. The trade-off is the weaknesses we logged on the bench: Unranked — builds are on the bench but not yet scored by the Opus vision judge; Slower and pricier per build than Flash — the whole question is whether that buys quality.
How does Goldie Bench score Grok 4.7 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro?
Every demo on this page was built by Julian Goldie inside the Agent Operating System — same fixed prompt for both models, one shot, single HTML file out. Each result gets a 0–10 score on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. The highest score on each task gets gold; second gets silver; third gets bronze. See methodology for full provenance.
Related comparisons
Other head-to-heads using the same scoring system:
Grok 4.7 vs Fusion DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Fusion Grok 4.7 vs Claude Opus 5 DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Opus 5 Grok 4.7 vs Hermes MoA DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Hermes MoA Grok 4.7 vs GPT-5.6 Sol DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GPT-5.6 SolFull model pages: Grok 4.7 · DeepSeek V4 Pro · back to the leaderboard
Run this stack yourself.
Every demo on this bench was built inside the Agent Operating System — one prompt, one shot, single HTML file out. The Agent OS, the prompts, the templates, the weekly walkthroughs and 4,000+ founders shipping with it every day all live inside the AI Profit Boardroom.

































