deepseek-r1 vs gpt-4.1
Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-r1 and gpt-4.1— benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. deepseek-r1 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 10 of 11 shared benchmarks.
deepseek-r1
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$4.00
Context
64K
Model ID
novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1
gpt-4.1
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$8.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
openai/gpt-4.1
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
deepseek-r127.1%
gpt-4.126.3%
Coding Indexcoding
deepseek-r124.0%
gpt-4.121.8%
Math Indexmath
deepseek-r176.0%
gpt-4.134.7%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-r181.3%
gpt-4.166.6%
AIME 2025math
deepseek-r176.0%
gpt-4.134.7%
LiveCodeBenchcoding
deepseek-r177.0%
gpt-4.145.7%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
deepseek-r115.9%
gpt-4.113.6%
τ²-Benchagentic
deepseek-r136.5%
gpt-4.147.1%
SciCodecoding
deepseek-r140.3%
gpt-4.138.1%
MMLU Proknowledge
deepseek-r184.9%
gpt-4.180.6%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
deepseek-r114.9%
gpt-4.14.6%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| deepseek-r1 | gpt-4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $4.00 | $2.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $4.00 | $8.00 |
| Context window | 64K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | — | 33K tokens |
| Vision input | — | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | — | Yes |
| Computer use | — | — |
| Provider | Novita AI | OpenAI Inc. |
Questions people ask
Is deepseek-r1 better than gpt-4.1?
deepseek-r1 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 10 of 11 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — deepseek-r1 and gpt-4.1 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — deepseek-r1 or gpt-4.1?
deepseek-r1 is cheaper. deepseek-r1 costs $4.00/$4.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while gpt-4.1 costs $2.00/$8.00.
Can I use deepseek-r1 and gpt-4.1 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1" or "openai/gpt-4.1" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-r1 supports up to 64K tokens of context. gpt-4.1 supports up to 1.0M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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