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API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
—$0.25
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
—$2.00
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again.
—$0.025
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page.
$0.05Relace$0.125OpenAI
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input.
$0.2352DeepInfra$1.00OpenAI
$34.30DeepInfra · fp8$150OpenAI list price
These models have no shared benchmark scores.
Overview
CompanyDeepSeekOpenAI
Release dateOct 17 2026Aug 7 2025
AccessOpen WeightClosed
Model detailsView modelView model

Frequently asked questions

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and GPT-5 mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only GPT-5 mini has a verified first-party API price: $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. GPT-5 mini shipped 436 days before DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is open weight, while GPT-5 mini is closed.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and GPT-5 mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.