Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High)
82
LongCat-2.0
80
Verified leaderboard positions: DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) #12 · LongCat-2.0 unranked
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LongCat-2.0 only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Agentic
+0.8 difference
Coding
+14.3 difference
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High)
LongCat-2.0
$1.74 / $3.48
$0.75 / $2.95
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Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LongCat-2.0 only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 82 versus 80. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 73.8 against 59.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 63.3% to 70.8%. LongCat-2.0 does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.74 input / $3.48 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.75 input / $2.95 output per 1M tokens for LongCat-2.0.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 82 to 80. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 63.3% and 70.8%.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 73.8 versus 59.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LongCat-2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.8 versus 70. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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