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OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-30.

OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest
Vendoropenai~deepseek
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score89.2-
Input Price$2.00/M$0.02/M
Output Price$10.00/M$0.60/M
Context Window1,050,0001,048,576
Max Output128,000943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index85.5-

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek Flash Latest costs $0.17 and GPT-6.1 Sol costs $4.50, so DeepSeek Flash Latest is about 26.5 times cheaper for the same work.

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

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-6.1 Sol scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), DeepSeek Flash Latest on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol if you need the stronger all-round task scores; pick DeepSeek Flash Latest if you need lower cost.

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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-6.1 SolDeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest
SQL Generation 143 133
Code Review 148 132
Code Completion 119 131
Code Refactoring 149 136
Bug Fixing 152 136
Unit Test Generation 134 124
Code Documentation 137 131
Regex Writing 126 119
CI/CD Pipelines 130 120
Frontend Component Design 132 122
Data Analysis 136 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 133
ETL Scripting 140 128
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 129
OCR / Document Parsing 135 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 131
Long-Document Summarization 150 137
Short-Form Summarization 117 123
Blog Post Writing 131 121

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

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