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DeepSeek V3vsGPT-4.1

GPT-4.1 leads 8 of 8 shared benchmarks. GPT-4.1 has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0 – 8
GPT-4.1 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
GPT-4.1
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
DeepSeek · OpenAI
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26
text
Context
128K
Max out
8K
Input /1M
—
Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
—
Scores
14 · 7 core
GPT-4.1
OpenAI · released 2025-04-14
textvision
Context
1.0M
Max out
33K
Input /1M
$2 ↗
Output /1M
$8 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
21 · 10 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V3GPT-4.1ΔEdge
Reported by both · 8
SWE-bench Verified42% ↗54.6% ↗-12.6 ptGPT-4.1
GPQA Diamond59.1% ↗66.3% ↗-7.2 ptGPT-4.1
MMLU88.5% ↗90.2% ↗-1.7 ptGPT-4.1
LMArena Elo1332.4 ↗1414.8 ↗-82.4GPT-4.1
MATH Level 5 (Epoch AI run)75.5% ↗epoch run83% ↗epoch run-7.5 ptGPT-4.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)15.8% ↗epoch run38.3% ↗epoch run-22.5 ptGPT-4.1
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)18.9% ↗27% ↗-8.1 ptGPT-4.1
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)36.1% ↗39% ↗-2.9 ptGPT-4.1
Only DeepSeek V3 reports · 2
MMLU-Pro75.9% ↗not reported——
AIME 202525% ↗matharenanot reported——
Only GPT-4.1 reports · 7
AIME 2024not reported48.1% ↗——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)not reported6% ↗epoch run——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)not reported6% ↗epoch run——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1214 ↗——
SimpleQA Verifiednot reported31.1% ↗epoch run——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)not reported48.5% ↗epoch run——
Video-MME (long, no subtitles)not reported72% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V3 minus GPT-4.1 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDeepSeek V3GPT-4.1Edge
Context window128K tokens1.0M tokensGPT-4.1
Max output8K tokens33K tokensGPT-4.1
Input price / 1M—$2 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$8 ↗—
Cached input / 1M—$0.5 ↗—
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$10—
Modalitiestexttext · visionGPT-4.1
Released2024-12-262025-04-14—
Cited benchmark scores1421—
Reliability

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