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GPT-5.4 Mini vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

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

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GPT-5.4 Mini · DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.4 Mini
#162 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
#175 by perf·no signal
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Best value
GPT-5.4 Mini
14.1 pts/$
$2.63/M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
no price
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4 Mini$0.75$4.50400K tokens (~200 books)$16.88
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B