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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs GPT-6 Astra API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.00045 per request and GPT-6 Astra costs $0.035, so DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is about 78× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ranks #15 and GPT-6 Astra ranks #2.

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-6 Astra
Input$0.15$10
Output$0.6$50
Cached input$0.003$1
ProviderdeepseekOpenAI
Release date—2026-09-03
Overall rank#15#2
Coding rank—#2
Reasoning rank—#2
Knowledge rank—#2
Professional work rank#14#8
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-6 AstraDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.00045$0.45 per 1,000$0.035$35 per 1,000DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 78× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.0162$16.2 per 1,000$1.1$1,100 per 1,000DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 68× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$0.1$105 per 1,000$7.5$7,500 per 1,000DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is 71× cheaper

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