cd /news/artificial-intelligence/the-official-deepswe-number-is-footn… · home topics artificial-intelligence article
[ARTICLE · art-98845] src=dev.to ↗ pub= topic=artificial-intelligence verified=true sentiment=· neutral

The Official DeepSWE Number Is Footnoted to DeepSeek Harness

DeepSeek released its V4-Pro model and an open-source developer tool, DeepSeek Harness, on August 13. The official DeepSWE score for V4-Pro is 62.7, up from 12.8 for the preview, with the footnote indicating tests were run inside the harness. The harness features a plugin system with revertible effects, named Cordis, and peak API pricing is $3.96 per million tokens.

read1 min views2 publishedAug 16, 2026

On August 13, DeepSeek shipped four things in one day. V4-Pro left preview. Peak and off-peak API prices start at 16:00 UTC on August 16. An 88-page draft paper went up on spatiotemporal composability. And deepseek-harness

dropped as a developer preview, MIT license, one command: npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web

.

The model headlines ate the English YouTube tab. I stayed on the harness.

Official figure for DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813: DeepSWE 62.7, against 12.8 for the preview. The footnote says public code-agent sets were tested inside DeepSeek Harness in minimal mode. Fable 5 is still at 70.0 on the same grid.

The loop is a plugin. Unload is written as revertible effects. They named that implementation Cordis. Peak output on V4-Pro is $3.96 per million tokens.

I put the footnote, the plugin topic, and the peak-hour bill into a four-minute video.

The August 13 write-up is still the plumbing version: [DeepSeek's Harness Is the Price Signal](https://dev.to/reidmarlow/deepseeks-harness-is-the-price-signal-17bl). This is the scoreboard version.

If you already run Claude Code with a DeepSeek key taped on, does the plugin topic change anything for you?
── more in #artificial-intelligence 4 stories · sorted by recency
── more on @deepseek 3 stories trending now
sponsored brought to you by zahid.host 4,200+ EU-deployed projects
reading about agents? ship yours in a single git push.

Run your AI side-project on zahid.host

EU-based hosting, git-push deploys, automatic HTTPS, no cold starts. Free tier with a custom domain — perfect for shipping the agent you just read about.

$git push zahid main
Live at https://your-agent.zahid.host
Get free account → Pricing
from €0/mo · no card required
LIVE [news/the-official-deepswe…] indexed:0 read:1min 2026-08-16 ·