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OpenAI: GPT Sol Latest vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT Sol Latest DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest
Vendor~openai~deepseek
Quality Score10099
Input Price$2.00/M$0.04/M
Output Price$10.00/M$0.30/M
Context Window1,050,0001,048,576
Max Output128,000943,718
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, DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest costs $0.12 and GPT Sol Latest costs $4.50, so DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest is about 38.0 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.

Only GPT Sol Latest offers image input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT Sol Latest scores higher on 10 (Code Review, Code Refactoring, Bug Fixing and others), DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

GPT Sol Latest was released in September 2026 and DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest in August 2026.

Pick GPT Sol Latest if you need image input; pick DeepSeek V4 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 Sol LatestDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest
SQL Generation 132 133
Code Review 132 131
Code Completion 117 131
Code Refactoring 136 135
Bug Fixing 136 135
Unit Test Generation 124 123
Code Documentation 129 131
Regex Writing 117 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 119
Frontend Component Design 122 91
Data Analysis 124 123
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 133
ETL Scripting 128 127
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 85
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 85
Long-Document Summarization 136 137
Short-Form Summarization 113 123
Blog Post Writing 120 121

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

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