DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-06.
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | deepseek | openai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 57.7 | 71.1 |
| Input Price | $0.22/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $0.65/M | $12.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 1,050,000 |
| Max Output | 262,144 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 57.5 | 69.4 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.38 and GPT-5.6 Terra costs $5.00, so DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is about 13.3 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.
On our blended benchmark score GPT-5.6 Terra leads 71.1 to 57.7.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp scores higher on 7 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others), GPT-5.6 Terra on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp was released in August 2026 and GPT-5.6 Terra in July 2026.
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp if you need lower cost; pick GPT-5.6 Terra if you need benchmark performance.
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?
| Task | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 140 | 140 |
| Code Review | 142 | 145 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 118 |
| Code Refactoring | 145 | 147 |
| Bug Fixing | 146 | 149 |
| Unit Test Generation | 130 | 132 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 135 |
| Regex Writing | 125 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 126 | 128 |
| Frontend Component Design | 128 | 130 |
| Data Analysis | 132 | 134 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 135 |
| ETL Scripting | 136 | 137 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 121 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 117 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 133 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 133 | 134 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 147 | 147 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 126 | 116 |
| Blog Post Writing | 128 | 128 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →