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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs OpenAI: GPT Luna Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-19.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 OpenAI: GPT Luna Latest
Vendordeepseek~openai
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.15/M$0.10/M
Output Price$0.60/M$0.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,050,000
Max Output393,216128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT Luna Latest costs $0.23 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.30, so GPT Luna Latest is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,050,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,575 pages.

Across the 5 tasks where they differ, GPT Luna Latest on 5 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others).

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was released in October 2026 and GPT Luna Latest in September 2026.

Pick GPT Luna Latest if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017OpenAI: GPT Luna Latest
Code Completion 131 131
Code Documentation 131 131
Regex Writing 119 119
JSON Extraction 131 131
Short-Form Summarization 123 123

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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