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GPT-5.1 vs DeepSeek V3 0324

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
GPT-5.1
#123 by perf·no signal
QUIET
DeepSeek V3 0324
#85 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
11.0x better value than GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1
8.8 pts/$
$5.63/M
DeepSeek V3 0324
96.7 pts/$
$0.57/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
GPT-5.1DeepSeek V3 0324
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GPT-5.1 leads by +43.3
GPT-5.1
1438.8
DeepSeek V3 0324
1395.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.1DeepSeek V3 0324
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1438.81395.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3 0324$0.24$0.90164K tokens (~82 books)$4.05