BenchLeader

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-6.1 Sol

Verdict
  • GPT-6.1 Sol (max) leads on quality: 69.3 vs 61.8.
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) is stronger in long context.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol (max) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, knowledge, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) is 7.6× cheaper ($0.525 vs $4.00 per 1M blended).
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) streams 3.9× faster (217 vs 56 tokens per second).
MetricDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)GPT-6.1 Sol (max)
BenchLeader Index61.869.3
Agents & tools score55.563.9
Coding score64.072.4
Composite score71.279.0
Human preference score66.968.1
Knowledge score59.378.8
Long context score67.366.8
Maths score61.972.5
Multimodal score60.966.2
Reasoning score65.276.4
Blended price $/M$0.525$4.00
Output speed217 tok/s56 tok/s
Time to first answer10.4 s326.9 s
Context window1M1.1M
GPQA Diamond89.8%95.4%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–367.4%93.7%
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%100.0%
OTIS Mock AIME98.3%100.0%
SimpleQA Verified–73.9%
Terminal-Bench–58.2%
SciCode51.9%54.2%
APEX-Agents–60.0%
LMArena Text14751484
LMArena Hard Prompts14991507
LMArena Coding15281545
LMArena WebDev16191755
LMArena Vision12771288
LMArena Agent3.811.7
LiveBench81.1%81.6%
LiveBench Reasoning86.7%92.6%
LiveBench Coding80.0%80.4%
LiveBench Agentic Coding77.3%54.5%
LiveBench Mathematics93.3%96.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis79.3%82.7%
LiveBench Language81.2%90.1%
LiveBench Instruction Following70.0%74.2%
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.239.551.8
AA-LCR84.0%83.0%
MMMU-Pro77.0%86.0%
AA-Omniscience-5.341.5
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)39.3%52.9%
SciCode (AA)51.9%54.2%
IOI–96.9%
Vals Index–61.1
ARC-AGI-194.5%96.5%
ARC-AGI-272.9%94.2%
ARC-AGI-3–96.2%
CritPt14.3%31.7%
GDPval-AA v2.155.0%53.8%
ITBench SRE (AA)46.9%–
Analyst Agent (AA)–50.0%
BioMysteryBench–79.6%
Code Migration–65.1%
CyberBench–39.3%
Excel Modeling Benchmark–70.8%
Finance Agent v2–52.0%
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark6.7%5.4%
Legal Research Bench–38.5%
MedCode–48.8%
MedScribe–86.5%
MysteryMechanism–46.4%
Public Benefits Bench64.3%59.3%
SAGE–46.5%
SREBench0.8%50.8%
Tax Agent Bench–62.3%
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)–55.0%
Vibe Code Bench v1.1–88.9%
LMArena Maths14931488
LMArena Creative Writing14391462
LMArena Instruction Following14771488
LMArena Multi-turn14661487
LMArena Longer Queries14821496
Chess Puzzles–61.0%
EBR-bench–54.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles43.0%80.0%
ALE-Bench1092.3–
GDP.pdf19.8%–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)26.8%56.1%
AutomationBench68.9%64.9%
GDP.pdf12.8%31.0%
MLCR22.8%33.9%
Harvey LAB1.7%6.9%
AA-Omniscience: accuracy46.4%62.1%
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination3.5%45.7%
AA-Briefcase v1.114221557
AA Openness Index44.4–

Data as of 2026-10-11. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-6.1 Sol: questions

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than GPT-6.1 Sol?
GPT-6.1 Sol (max) leads on quality: 69.3 vs 61.8. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-6.1 Sol (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-11, but check the category scores for your use.
Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than GPT-6.1 Sol for coding?
GPT-6.1 Sol scores higher in coding (72 vs 64 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than GPT-6.1 Sol for agentic tasks?
GPT-6.1 Sol scores higher in agentic tasks (64 vs 56 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or GPT-6.1 Sol?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is cheaper: $0.525 against $4.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or GPT-6.1 Sol?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash streams faster: 217 against 56 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
GPT-6.1 Sol accepts more context: 1.1M against 1M tokens.