deepseek-v4-flash vs gpt-5.1

Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-v4-flash and gpt-5.1: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. deepseek-v4-flash outperforms gpt-5.1 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks.

Benchmark comparison

Intelligence Indexreasoning
deepseek-v4-flash51.8%
gpt-5.137.5%
Coding Indexcoding
deepseek-v4-flash69.1%
gpt-5.149.4%
Math Indexmath
deepseek-v4-flashN/A
gpt-5.194.0%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-v4-flash90.8%
gpt-5.187.3%
AIME 2025math
deepseek-v4-flashN/A
gpt-5.194.0%
LiveCodeBenchcoding
deepseek-v4-flashN/A
gpt-5.186.8%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
deepseek-v4-flashN/A
gpt-5.145.5%
τ²-Benchagentic
deepseek-v4-flashN/A
gpt-5.181.9%
SciCodecoding
deepseek-v4-flash49.9%
gpt-5.143.3%
MMLU Proknowledge
deepseek-v4-flashN/A
gpt-5.187.0%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
deepseek-v4-flash38.6%
gpt-5.128.5%

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-v4-flashgpt-5.1
Input price / 1M$0.14$1.25
Output price / 1M$0.28$10.00
Context window1.0M tokens400K tokens
Max outputN/A128K tokens
Vision inputN/AYes
Tool callingYesYes
ReasoningYesYes
Prompt cachingN/AYes
Computer useN/AN/A
ProviderNovita AIOpenAI Inc.

Questions people ask

Is deepseek-v4-flash better than gpt-5.1?
deepseek-v4-flash outperforms gpt-5.1 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: deepseek-v4-flash and gpt-5.1 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, deepseek-v4-flash or gpt-5.1?
deepseek-v4-flash is cheaper. deepseek-v4-flash costs $0.14/$0.28 per 1M input/output tokens, while gpt-5.1 costs $1.25/$10.00.
Can I use deepseek-v4-flash and gpt-5.1 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "novita/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash" and "openai/gpt-5.1", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-v4-flash supports up to 1.0M tokens of context. gpt-5.1 supports up to 400K 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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