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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B vs GPT-4o-mini

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B · GPT-4o-mini are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
#210 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-4o-mini
#175 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
no price
GPT-4o-mini
105.6 pts/$
$0.38/M
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
OpenAI logoGPT-4o-mini$0.15$0.60128K tokens (~64 books)$2.62