Model Comparison
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Grok 4.7
Too close to call: the best configurations, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) and Grok 4.7 (medium), are 26 Elo apart, and their 95% ranges overlap. Among 78 models, each ranked by its best configuration, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is #21 and Grok 4.7 is #22. Cost per script: $0.077 for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) and $0.215 for Grok 4.7 (medium).
Last updated , from board data generated at 01:13 UTC.
Picks and Verdict
PickDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max)
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) as the writer to run here, since $0.077 a script gets a draft the board can't separate from Grok's best at $0.215.
PickGrok 4.7
Grok 4.7 (medium)
Pick Grok 4.7 (medium) when the facts and the visuals carry the video, since it leads DeepSeek's best by 4.5 points on substance and 1.2 on visual cues.
Grok 4.7's cheapest setting and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813's most expensive one sit a little over a cent apart: $0.064 and $0.077 a script. For that extra cent, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) sits 116 Elo above Grok 4.7 (low), with separate 95% ranges, which is strong evidence for that order. Grok has to spend more to get close. Grok 4.7 (medium), its best setting, is 26 Elo behind DeepSeek at max, and those ranges overlap, so the board can't separate the two. It costs $0.215, almost three times as much, and Grok 4.7 (high) adds nine cents for a lower Writing Elo. By best setting, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is the #21 model of 78 and Grok 4.7 the #22 model. DeepSeek only competes at max. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (high) drops below every Grok setting, and I wouldn't run it. Grok's strength is substance. At the best settings it's 4.5 points ahead there, with better visual cues, and almost five points back on craft and fifteen on length. Craft is the one that costs me editing time. I'd run DeepSeek at max and fill in the facts myself.
How to Read the Writing Score, Writing Elo and 95% Ranges
Writing Score and Writing Elo. The Writing Score (0 to 100) is the weighted average of the nine metric scores: seven from the judges, Length Adherence from code and the Slop Score half from each. The Writing Elo is a rating from pairwise comparisons: on each script, each configuration's average across its drafts is compared with every other configuration's, and gaps within the draft-to-draft variation count as draws. Elo rewards winning often, so the two can put configurations in a different order.
Elo ranges. Each 95% range shows how far a configuration's Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently. It comes from resampling every configuration's recorded draft scores on each reference script and ranking again. Comparing two separate ranges does not test the Elo gap between them: ranges far apart are strong evidence for the order, and overlapping ranges do not mean a tie. The reference scripts stay fixed, so the ranges say nothing about new scripts. The methodology page has the full description.
All Thinking Levels of Both Models
Every ranked configuration of DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Grok 4.7, scored on the same 10 scripts by the same four judges.
- Each row is one configuration: the model at one thinking level. The dot is its Writing Elo, a rating from pairwise comparisons of the scores on each script, and the bar is its 95% range: how far that Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently.
- When two bars overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations. Bars far apart are strong evidence for the order.
- The table under the chart lists the same configurations in the same order and adds the Writing Score (the 0 to 100 consensus of the judges and code), cost, time and configuration rank (the place among all configurations on the board).
Shaded rows are the configurations chosen for the metric comparison below.
| Configuration | Writing Elo | 95% Range | Writing Score | Cost / Script | Time / Script | Reasoning Tokens | Configuration Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) | 1950 | 1906 to 1989 | 80.1 | $0.077 | 8.9 min | 31,573 | #40 |
| Grok 4.7 (medium) | 1924 | 1863 to 1974 | 79.6 | $0.215 | 6.2 min | 27,687 | #42 |
| Grok 4.7 (high) | 1897 | 1850 to 1939 | 79.6 | $0.305 | 9.6 min | 42,549 | #43 |
| Grok 4.7 (low) | 1834 | 1784 to 1890 | 79.0 | $0.064 | 1.7 min | 2,760 | #48 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (high) | 1350 | 1272 to 1428 | 72.3 | $0.031 | 1.3 min | 8,879 | #81 |
Cost is one script at the API list price of the route used, uncached and without judging. Time is the average for one accepted script, retries included.
Computed Findings Across Thinking Levels
Each finding is computed from the configurations above. Where two 95% ranges overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations.
- Best Configurations Head to Head. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) at Elo 1950 (range 1906 to 1989) and Grok 4.7 (medium) at Elo 1924 (range 1863 to 1974) have overlapping 95% ranges, so the board cannot separate the two best configurations.
- Lowest Thinking Levels Head to Head. At their lowest thinking levels, Grok 4.7 (low) at Elo 1834 and $0.064 per script leads DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (high) at Elo 1350 and $0.031 per script by 484 Elo. Their 95% ranges do not overlap.
- Same Level Name, Side by Side. At high, the one level name both models use, Grok 4.7 has the higher Writing Elo: 1897 against 1350. Their 95% ranges do not overlap there. Level names come from each provider, so the same name does not promise the same reasoning budget.
- Cheapest DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Configuration Above Grok 4.7's Best. The cheapest DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 configuration with a higher Writing Elo than Grok 4.7 (medium), at Elo 1924 and $0.215 per script, is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max), at Elo 1950 and $0.077 per script. Their 95% ranges overlap, so the board cannot separate them. It costs less than the configuration it beats.
- Lowest to Highest Thinking Level. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 moves +600 Elo from high to max, at about 2.5 times the cost per script. Grok 4.7 moves +63 Elo from low to high, at about 4.8 times the cost per script.
Two Chosen Configurations Compared
Pick one configuration of each model to compare their metric scores, consistency across drafts and per-script scores. Each menu starts on the model's best configuration.
Scores by Metric
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) scores higher on four of the nine metrics and Grok 4.7 (medium) on five. Weighted by each metric's share of the Writing Score, Length Adherence does the most to put DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) ahead, with a 14.7-point lead on that metric. The weight beside each metric is its share of the Writing Score.
Consistency Across Drafts
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) | Grok 4.7 (medium) | |
|---|---|---|
| Score spread across drafts (±) | 1.48 | 3.00 |
| Lowest script score | 78.2 Script 10 | 75.6 Script 10 |
| Highest script score | 81.5 Script 6 | 82.2 Script 2 |
| Range across scripts | 3.3 | 6.6 |
Spread is how much the Writing Score moves between a configuration's drafts, and lower is steadier. Green marks the better number in each row.
Scores by Script
Writing Score on each reference script. Gap is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) minus Grok 4.7 (medium), and the higher score is in bold.
| Script | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) | Grok 4.7 (medium) | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Script 1 opinion / warning explainer | 79.5 | 81.5 | -2.0 |
| Script 2 news-analysis / skeptical explainer | 80.6 | 82.2 | -1.6 |
| Script 3 personal roadmap / opinion | 80.8 | 81.6 | -0.8 |
| Script 4 short explainer | 78.5 | 76.9 | +1.6 |
| Script 5 news-analysis / opinion explainer | 80.9 | 80.5 | +0.4 |
| Script 6 founder announcement / personal origin story | 81.5 | 82.0 | -0.5 |
| Script 7 personal technical walkthrough / agentic workflow case study | 81.1 | 76.5 | +4.6 |
| Script 8 product release announcement / personal observation | 80.2 | 79.0 | +1.2 |
| Script 9 career guide / hiring analysis | 79.9 | 80.2 | -0.3 |
| Script 10 engineering process walkthrough / presentation adaptation | 78.2 | 75.6 | +2.6 |
Scorecards and Thinking Pages
Each configuration name in the table above opens its own scorecard.
Compare With Another Model
Pick a second model. A pair with its own written match-up opens that page, and any other pair opens in the comparison tool.
Nearby Match-Ups by Best Writing Elo
Every configuration wrote five drafts for each of the same 10 briefs, from the same prompt. Generation was closed-book, with the prompt as the only source and no web search or other tools. Each judge scores every draft once: Claude Opus 5.5 at medium effort through the Claude Code subscription, GPT-6.1 Sol at medium reasoning through the Codex CLI, GLM 5.3 Flash through OpenRouter, and Jev 1.13, a typed judge from TypeSafe that answers each metric as a multiple-choice question. The channel's finished script is their reference for the voice, and it gets no score on the board itself.
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