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OpenAI: GPT Terra Latest vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

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

OpenAI: GPT Terra Latest DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Vendor~openaideepseek
Quality Score100100
Input Price$1.00/M$0.05/M
Output Price$5.00/M$0.57/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 V4.1 Flash costs $0.19 and GPT Terra Latest costs $2.25, so DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is about 11.7 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 10 tasks where they differ, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

Pick DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Terra LatestDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Completion 118 131
Code Documentation 130 131
Regex Writing 118 119
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 120 129
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 114 123
Blog Post Writing 121 121

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

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