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DeepSeek V3 0324 vs GPT-5.1

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

Winner summary

GPT-5.1 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·GPT-5.1
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V3 0324
#70 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.1
#97 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
12.9x better value than GPT-5.1
DeepSeek V3 0324
113.6 pts/$
$0.48/M
GPT-5.1
8.8 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
DeepSeek V3 0324GPT-5.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GPT-5.1 leads by +44.0
DeepSeek V3 0324
1394.6
GPT-5.1
1438.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V3 0324GPT-5.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1394.61438.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3 0324$0.20$0.77164K tokens (~82 books)$3.43
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38