DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs gpt-oss-20b
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads gpt-oss-20b on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 39.5 to 10.0, and gpt-oss-20b costs 4.0x less per output token ($0.15 vs $0.60 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 9 benchmarks have a result for both.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 or gpt-oss-20b: which to pick
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has a coding score, 70.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; gpt-oss-20b has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick gpt-oss-20b for output tokens 4.0x cheaper ($0.15 vs $0.60 per million).
- Shared results
- 9
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 only
- 30
- gpt-oss-20b only
- 53
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads, 39.5 against 10.0.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only gpt-oss-20b has a GPQA Diamond result, 68.9%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only gpt-oss-20b has a AIME result, 86.0%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only gpt-oss-20b has a MMLU Pro result, 71.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads, 1312 against 852.
Same board, both measured
General
Vals Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has a Vals Index result, 61.3%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
gpt-oss-20b
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 $0.0004, gpt-oss-20b $0.0001 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 70.3 from 4 benchmarks, gpt-oss-20b not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Web design, 53.9 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: websites: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 1312 against gpt-oss-20b 852, 57.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 $0.60 against gpt-oss-20b $0.15 per million output tokens, 4.0x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 takes 1.05M tokens, gpt-oss-20b 131K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | Bars | gpt-oss-20b | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| Math | 1 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 2 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 9 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 96.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1664 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.4% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 31.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 87.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 44.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 77.7% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| SciCode | 55.9% | 38.9% | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 10.6% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 3.4% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 40.9% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1622.0 | 566.0 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1307 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1311 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1667 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1687 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 39.5 | 10.0 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 137.7 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1230 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LiveBench research | 79.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 76.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 50.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 57.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 44.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 45.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 14.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 61.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 60.2% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | Not measured | 50.6% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 68.9% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 68.8% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 43.3% | 11.0% | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 93.2% | 60.8% | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| Chess puzzles | 46.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 49.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1274 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1258 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1292 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 53.2% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 86.0% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 94.2% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 89.0% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 89.3 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 89.3% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 99.4% | 65.3% | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 71.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 46.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1317 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1305 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 71.6% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.8% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.8% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.1% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 63.7% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 82.9% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 74.8% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 42.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1296 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1310 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1280 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1284 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1312 | 852 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1300 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1362 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1335 | 933 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1372 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1334 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1243 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LiveBench design | 83.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 61.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 79.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 65.1% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.7% | 34.7% | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
| DTBench | Not measured | 68.0% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 14.5% | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1288 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1236 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1201 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1303 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1269 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1315 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1255 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1244 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1236 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1267 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1278 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1252 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1268 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1250 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1238 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1216 | Only gpt-oss-20b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | gpt-oss-20b | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
gpt-oss-20b costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
gpt-oss-20b costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
gpt-oss-20b costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | OpenAI gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | October 17, 2026 | August 5, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.15 | $0.03 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $0.15 |
| Coding index | 70.3 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 better than gpt-oss-20b for coding?
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has a coding score, 70.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; gpt-oss-20b has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick gpt-oss-20b for output tokens 4.0x cheaper ($0.15 vs $0.60 per million).
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 or gpt-oss-20b?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; gpt-oss-20b costs $0.03 and $0.15. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 or gpt-oss-20b?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs gpt-oss-20b comparison based on?
9 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and gpt-oss-20b's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.