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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs phi-3-mini 3.8B

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Winner summary

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
knowledge·DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
#69 by perf·#10 by attention
DESERVED
phi-3-mini 3.8B
#90 by perf·#20 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
149.9 pts/$
$0.38/M
phi-3-mini 3.8B
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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Microsoft
$3.96T·Big Tech
Low risk
Head to head
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
Chess Puzzles
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads by +45.3
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
45.3
phi-3-mini 3.8B
0.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
45.30.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.15$0.601.0M tokens (~524 books)$2.62
Microsoft logophi-3-mini 3.8B————