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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.00045 per request and GPT-5.6 Sol costs $0.014, so DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is about 31× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ranks #15 and GPT-5.6 Sol ranks #11.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017GPT-5.6 Sol
Input$0.15$4
Output$0.6$20
Cached input$0.003$0.4
ProviderdeepseekOpenAI
Release date—2026-07-09
Overall rank#15#11
Coding rank—#9
Reasoning rank—#5
Knowledge rank—#8
Professional work rank#14#25
Verified2026-10-202026-10-20
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017GPT-5.6 SolDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.00045$0.45 per 1,000$0.014$14 per 1,000DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 31× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.0162$16.2 per 1,000$0.44$440 per 1,000DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 27× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$0.1$105 per 1,000$3$3,000 per 1,000DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 29× cheaper

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