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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs gpt-oss-20b (free)

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

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 · gpt-oss-20b (free) are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
#41 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
gpt-oss-20b (free)
#33 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
254.9 pts/$
$0.25/M
gpt-oss-20b (free)
n/a
$0.00/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
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017$0.01$0.501.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.29
OpenAI logogpt-oss-20b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)n/a