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o3 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash

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

Winner summary

DeepSeek V4 Flash wins 2 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·DeepSeek V4 Flash
Hype vs Reality
o3
#91 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek V4 Flash
#31 by perf·no signal
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Best value
49.5x better value than o3
o3
10.8 pts/$
$5.00/M
DeepSeek V4 Flash
533.3 pts/$
$0.13/M
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
Head to head
o3DeepSeek V4 Flash
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
o3 leads by +5.0
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
o3
36.1
DeepSeek V4 Flash
31.1
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +17.8
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
o3
38.4
DeepSeek V4 Flash
56.2
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +9.9
o3
30.4
DeepSeek V4 Flash
40.3
Full benchmark table
Benchmarko3DeepSeek V4 Flash
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
36.131.1
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
38.456.2
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
30.440.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoo3$2.00$8.00200K tokens (~100 books)$35.00
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash$0.08$0.171.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.05