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GPT-5.4 Nano vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GPT-5.4 Nano · DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.4 Nano
#180 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
#229 by perf·no signal
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Best value
GPT-5.4 Nano
44.7 pts/$
$0.72/M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
no price
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
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4 Nano$0.20$1.25400K tokens (~200 books)$4.63
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B