0 vs 3 benchmarks won
DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview | OpenAI GPT-5.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Release date | Nov 20 2024 | Nov 12 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | 88.1% |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | 76.3% |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | 76% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview shipped 357 days before GPT-5.1 | |
GPT-5.1 leads DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview on 3 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview shipped 357 days before GPT-5.1, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-5.1 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.