gpt-4.1 vs deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Side-by-side comparison of gpt-4.1 and deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 — benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 4 of 7 shared benchmarks.
gpt-4.1
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$8.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
openai/gpt-4.1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$7.00
Context
64K
Model ID
together/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Benchmark comparison
MMLU Proknowledge
gpt-4.185.3%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R185.0%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
gpt-4.174.1%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R171.5%
HumanEvalcoding
gpt-4.191.8%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R192.0%
SWE-Bench Verifiedcoding
gpt-4.168.1%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R149.2%
MATHmath
gpt-4.189.2%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R192.2%
AIME 2024math
gpt-4.172.4%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R179.8%
MMMUmultimodal
gpt-4.174.8%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R174.8%
LiveBenchreasoning
gpt-4.166.7%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R171.5%
τ-bench Retailagentic
gpt-4.165.1%
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1—
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| gpt-4.1 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $2.00 | $3.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $8.00 | $7.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 64K tokens |
| Max output | 33K tokens | 8K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | — |
| Tool calling | Yes | — |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | Yes | — |
| Computer use | — | — |
| Provider | OpenAI Inc. | Together AI Inc. |
Questions people ask
Is gpt-4.1 better than deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1?
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 4 of 7 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — gpt-4.1 and deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — gpt-4.1 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1?
gpt-4.1 and deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 have identical combined pricing.
Can I use gpt-4.1 and deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "openai/gpt-4.1" or "together/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
gpt-4.1 supports up to 1.0M tokens of context. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 supports up to 64K tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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