SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-04.
| SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | x-ai | deepseek |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 79.2 | 57.7 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.22/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $0.65/M |
| Context Window | 500,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 450,000 | 262,144 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 76.6 | 57.5 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.38 and Grok 4.7 costs $3.50, so DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is about 9.3 times cheaper for the same work.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 750 pages for Grok 4.7.
On our blended benchmark score Grok 4.7 leads 79.2 to 57.7.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Grok 4.7 scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Grok 4.7 was released in September 2026 and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp in August 2026.
Pick Grok 4.7 if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp if you need lower cost or long documents.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 140 |
| Code Review | 146 | 142 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 133 |
| Code Refactoring | 148 | 145 |
| Bug Fixing | 150 | 146 |
| Unit Test Generation | 133 | 130 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 137 |
| Regex Writing | 126 | 125 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 129 | 126 |
| Frontend Component Design | 131 | 128 |
| Data Analysis | 135 | 132 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 136 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 133 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 133 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 149 | 147 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 118 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 128 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →