Side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek-V4-Pro (DeepSeek · China) and Grok-2 (xAI · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DeepSeek-V4-Pro is rated conditional; Grok-2 is conditional. They part ways on licence: DeepSeek-V4-Pro is "MIT", Grok-2 is "Grok 2 Community".
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|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per the published LICENSE file, DeepSeek-V4-Pro ships under MIT with no commercial restrictions, so the weights themselves are deployable. The caveats are non-EU jurisdiction and a training corpus described only by aggregate token count (32T+) without a dataset list — both should be documented in any GDPR or AI Act compliance file before regulated use. | Conditional xAI's first open-weights release. Commercial use allowed under the Grok 2 Community License with xAI's Acceptable Use Policy. Notable restriction: weights cannot be used to train other models (distillation ban). 500GB model, needs 8 GPUs with 40GB+. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-16 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Grok 2 Community |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes (w/ AUP) |
| Training data | Categories only | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 52/100 | 14/100 |
| Speed | 36 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $2.17/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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