Scores by reasoning setting

XHigh (Intensive group, tested and included)26.4
High (Balanced group, tested and included)24.2
Mediumnot included (Balanced group, tested, not included)24.2
Highnot included (Balanced group, tested, not included)29.8
Mediumnot included (Balanced group, tested, not included)19.5
None (Baseline group, tested and included)25.2

Settings marked “not included” were tested but are left out of the overall score.

Available settings and grouping

Available settings

Reasoning disabledHighXHigh

Checked on 2026-07-21 · Provider documentation

How settings are grouped

Baseline: Reasoning disabled — tested and included
Balanced: High — tested and included
Intensive: XHigh — tested and included

Scores by game

Go25.5
Chess7.7
Shogi18.9
Xiangqi—
Hex—
International Draughts55.9
Game of the Amazons32.6
Tumbleweed18.9

Relative scores within each game, across the included settings; they do not compare game difficulty.

What this result shows

Strongest included setting: XHigh (26.4).

Across included settings, the highest game score is International Draughts (55.9); the lowest is Chess (7.7). These are relative scores within each game, not direct comparisons of difficulty.

Match evidence measures these retained programs. It does not establish how a fresh generation will perform. Independent-generation variation is not estimated in this release.

Test protocol and evidence limits

Model identifier: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
Provider route (catalog): openrouter
Prompt identity / profile: Not retained in this result set / Not retained in this result set
Prompt version: Not retained in this result set
Generation policy: Generation-quality admission policy (see methodology)
Requested output-token limits: Not retained (0 of 35 indexed attempts)

Generation evidence

Reasoning disabled: 7 contributing player programs across 7 games
High: 8 contributing player programs across 8 games
XHigh: 7 contributing player programs across 7 games

Counts describe contributing programs, not independent replications: repairs and resends are not new independent samples. Independent-generation lineage is not retained; the per-game counts below keep unique code identities separate from admitted generation runs.

Game	Setting	Unique programs	Admitted generation runs	Program score range
Chess	high	1	1	8.7–8.7
Chess	medium	2	2	2.3–7.9
Chess	none	1	1	7.6–7.6
Chess	xhigh	1	1	8.8–8.8
Game of the Amazons	high	1	1	38.0–38.0
Game of the Amazons	medium	2	2	18.3–33.6
Game of the Amazons	none	1	1	24.9–24.9
Game of the Amazons	xhigh	1	1	41.0–41.0
Go	high	1	1	33.2–33.2
Go	medium	2	2	19.1–51.4
Go	none	1	1	21.6–21.6
Go	xhigh	1	1	20.6–20.6
Hex	high	1	1	46.6–46.6
Hex	medium	2	2	19.9–20.1
Hex	none	1	1	41.7–41.7
International Draughts	high	1	1	49.6–49.6
International Draughts	medium	2	2	18.2–29.5
International Draughts	none	1	1	55.5–55.5
International Draughts	xhigh	1	1	75.4–75.4
Shogi	high	1	1	22.7–22.7
Shogi	medium	1	1	24.0–24.0
Shogi	none	1	1	16.3–16.3
Shogi	xhigh	1	1	17.1–17.1
Tumbleweed	high	1	1	30.9–30.9
Tumbleweed	medium	2	2	15.5–19.2
Tumbleweed	none	1	1	14.8–14.8
Tumbleweed	xhigh	1	1	17.7–17.7
Xiangqi	high	1	1	8.8–8.8
Xiangqi	medium	1	1	9.8–9.8
Xiangqi	xhigh	1	1	10.8–10.8

Program ranges describe the retained competitors on this release scale, not a statistical estimate of a fresh generation.

Failures and budgets

4 model-code generation failures; 0 provider/infrastructure failures excluded from the generation denominator. Runtime player faults are separate: 0 recorded unilateral faults across contributing program rows, excluded from rating evidence.

Repair/resend outcomes and available costs are included. Exact retry ceilings and execution budgets are not retained in this result set; see the methodology for the public policy. Do not infer a measured setting from a current provider catalog.

Player program results

XHigh: 50% / 38% / 12% · n 8High: 63% / 25% / 12% · n 16Reasoning disabled: 75% / 13% / 12% · n 8 All three benchmark settings tested

Generation cost

$0.0041average estimated cost per game and reasoning setting

Median: $0.0032
Range: $0.000895–$0.01
Known cost subtotal (incomplete or unverified charges): $0.16
Cost data: 24 combinations · 40 runs
Price source: Provider-reported
Price list: Not recorded for this older data
Average output: 14k tokens
Output range: 2.0k–54k tokens
Runs with output-token data: 24

How cost is measured

Comparison cost gives equal weight to each model, game, and reasoning-setting combination. Recorded generation attempts include repairs and resends when cost evidence is available; runtime compute and service operation are excluded. Cost and output-token counts use separate telemetry denominators. A list-price estimate is not actual expenditure; mixed evidence is not a uniform standard-price comparison.

Test protocol

Combines this model's tested reasoning settings
Player-program generation; retained protocol details are under “Test protocol and evidence limits” above

DeepSeek V4 Flash