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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 vs Nex-N2.5-Pro

Published LiveBench scores across all seven categories, live list pricing, context windows, and the measured cost of a point of capability — for both models, side by side.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Nex-N2.5-Pro are priced within ~10% of each other.

Nex-N2.5-Pro does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.

deepseek

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

Blended / 1M
$0.111
Context
1.0M
Released
Apr 24, 2026
Overall score
65.5
reasoningtool callingprompt caching

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Nex-N2.5-Pro

Blended / 1M
$0.119
Context
262K
Released
Sep 8, 2026
Overall score
Not evaluated
reasoningtool callingimage inputprompt caching

Specs and pricing

MetricDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423Nex-N2.5-Pro
LiveBench overall

Mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better.

65.5
Cost per point

Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability.

$0.0083
Blended price / 1M

3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic.

$0.111$0.119
Input price / 1M$0.089$0.075win
Output price / 1M$0.177win$0.250
Cached input / 1M

Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one.

$0.018$0.015win
Context window1.0Mwin262K
Max output tokens384Kwin236K

Benchmarks by category

An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 on top, Nex-N2.5-Pro below, both out of 100.

Agentic coding
37.6
Coding
69.2
Reasoning
70.6
Mathematics
79.6
Data analysis
68.0
Language
70.1
Instruction following
63.1

What each one costs to run

Per-token prices are hard to feel. These are monthly list costs for both models across five workload shapes, using each provider's published cached-input rate where there is one.

WorkloadDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423Nex-N2.5-Pro
Support chatbot

1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests

$30.34/mo$33.68/mo
RAG assistant

8K in / 600 out × 100K requests

$53.16/mo$51.00/mo
Coding agent

40K in / 4K out × 20K requests

$45.37/mo$46.40/mo
Document extraction

20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests

$98.35/mo$90.75/mo
Bulk classification

500 in / 20 out × 5M requests

$203.79/mo$182.50/mo
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Which should you pick?

You need to fit large documents in one call

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

Wider context window — 1.0M against 262K.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 vs Nex-N2.5-Pro FAQ

Which is better, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 or Nex-N2.5-Pro?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Nex-N2.5-Pro are priced within ~10% of each other. Nex-N2.5-Pro does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 cheaper than Nex-N2.5-Pro?

They cost about the same. Both land near $0.111 per million tokens on a 3:1 input:output blend, so price is unlikely to be the deciding factor between them.

Does DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 or Nex-N2.5-Pro have a bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has the larger context window: 1.0M for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 against 262K for Nex-N2.5-Pro. Note that a window you can fill is not a window you should fill — retrieval quality usually degrades well before the limit, and you pay for every token you put in it.

Do DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Nex-N2.5-Pro support prompt caching?

Both publish a cached-input rate: $0.018 per million for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and $0.015 for Nex-N2.5-Pro, against full input rates of $0.089 and $0.075. On a workload with a long stable prefix — a system prompt, a tool schema, a retrieved corpus — that changes the economics more than the headline price does.

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How these numbers are produced

  • Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
  • ScoresLiveBench release 2026-06-25, using their own category map. Each model shows its strongest published run. A blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
  • Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
  • “Win” — awarded only past a threshold: one full point on a benchmark score, 10% on a price, 25% on a context window. Anything tighter reports as a tie, because effort settings alone move a LiveBench score by more than that.

Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.