BenchLeader

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-6 Sol

Verdict
  • GPT-6 Sol (max) leads on quality: 67.7 vs 61.2.
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, long context.
  • GPT-6 Sol (max) is stronger in composite, knowledge, multimodal, reasoning.
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) is 15× cheaper ($0.262 vs $4.00 per 1M blended).
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) streams 1.8× faster (227 vs 126 tokens per second).
MetricDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)GPT-6 Sol (max)
BenchLeader Index61.267.7
Agents & tools score59.6
Coding score65.7
Composite score73.086.2
Knowledge score60.475.4
Long context score67.967.7
Multimodal score60.667.1
Reasoning score66.995.0
Blended price $/M$0.262$4.00
Output speed227 tok/s126 tok/s
Time to first answer9.9 s107.2 s
Context window1M1.1M
SciCode51.9%
LMArena WebDev1614
LMArena Agent4.9
LiveBench81.1%
LiveBench Reasoning86.7%
LiveBench Coding80.0%
LiveBench Agentic Coding77.3%
LiveBench Mathematics93.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis79.3%
LiveBench Language81.2%
LiveBench Instruction Following70.0%
AA Intelligence Index39.547.5
AA-LCR84.0%83.7%
MMMU-Pro77.0%83.3%
AA-Omniscience-5.327.1
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)39.3%47.9%
SciCode (AA)51.9%57.6%
CritPt14.3%30.9%
GDPval (AA)55.0%49.4%
ALE-Bench1092.3
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)26.8%43.9%
AutomationBench68.9%61.6%
GDP.pdf12.8%24.8%
MLCR22.8%16.1%
AA-Omniscience: accuracy46.4%54.5%
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination3.5%39.9%
AA-Briefcase14321483
AA Openness Index44.4

Data as of 2026-09-23. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-6 Sol: questions

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than GPT-6 Sol?
GPT-6 Sol (max) leads on quality: 67.7 vs 61.2. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-6 Sol (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-23, but check the category scores for your use.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or GPT-6 Sol?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is cheaper: $0.262 against $4.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or GPT-6 Sol?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash streams faster: 227 against 126 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.1M against 1M tokens.