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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B vs GPT-5.4 Nano
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Winner summary
GPT-5.4 Nano wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B · GPT-5.4 Nano are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
#227 by perf·no signal
GPT-5.4 Nano
#178 by perf·no signal
Best value
GPT-5.4 Nano
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
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no price
GPT-5.4 Nano
44.7 pts/$
$0.72/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | — | — | — | — |
| GPT-5.4 Nano | $0.20 | $1.25 | 400K tokens (~200 books) | $4.63 |