Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek and GPT 4.1 Mini from OpenAI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
DeepSeek V4 Flash
GPT 4.1 Mini(This model currently points to the older 0423 version; if you need to request the latest version, you can choose the model deepseek-v4-flash-0731)DeepSeek-V4 features an ultra-long context of one million characters and achieves leading performance domestically and in the open-source domain in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning.
Lightweight, high-performance model with million-token context and near-flagship-level encoding and image understanding capabilities, while reducing costs by 83%. It is suitable for rapid development and small to medium-sized applications. The automatic caching mechanism provides a 75% cost reduction on cache hits.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.284/M output tokens; GPT 4.1 Mini: $1.6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1483; GPT 4.1 Mini: 1433 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GPT 4.1 Mini: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts 1,000,000 and GPT 4.1 Mini accepts 1,047,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash and 32,768 tokens on GPT 4.1 Mini.
DeepSeek V4 Flash at 66.5 tok/s and GPT 4.1 Mini at 58.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; GPT 4.1 Mini accepts text, image and PDF input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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