deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 vs gpt-4.1
Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 and gpt-4.1 — 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.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$7.00
Context
64K
Model ID
together/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
gpt-4.1
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$8.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
openai/gpt-4.1
Benchmark comparison
MMLU Proknowledge
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R185.0%
gpt-4.185.3%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R171.5%
gpt-4.174.1%
HumanEvalcoding
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R192.0%
gpt-4.191.8%
SWE-Bench Verifiedcoding
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R149.2%
gpt-4.168.1%
MATHmath
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R192.2%
gpt-4.189.2%
AIME 2024math
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R179.8%
gpt-4.172.4%
MMMUmultimodal
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R174.8%
gpt-4.174.8%
LiveBenchreasoning
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R171.5%
gpt-4.166.7%
τ-bench Retailagentic
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1—
gpt-4.165.1%
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
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 | gpt-4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $2.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $7.00 | $8.00 |
| Context window | 64K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | 8K tokens | 33K tokens |
| Vision input | — | Yes |
| Tool calling | — | Yes |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | — | Yes |
| Computer use | — | — |
| Provider | Together AI Inc. | OpenAI Inc. |
Questions people ask
Is deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 better than gpt-4.1?
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 4 of 7 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 and gpt-4.1 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 or gpt-4.1?
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 and gpt-4.1 have identical combined pricing.
Can I use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 and gpt-4.1 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "together/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1" or "openai/gpt-4.1" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 supports up to 64K tokens of context. gpt-4.1 supports up to 1.0M 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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