DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT Audio Mini
Updated October 21, 2026. 0 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
- Coding
- 62.5
- Overall
- 24.7
- Output $/M
- $0.84
GPT Audio MiniOpenAI
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $2.40
vs $0.84 vs $2.40 per 1M output tokens. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 2.9x cheaper.
Decision reading
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has a coding score, 62.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT Audio Mini has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Model ADeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek62.5/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BGPT Audio MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 0
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash only
- 101
- GPT Audio Mini only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has a AA Intelligence Index result, 24.7.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has a Design Arena: websites result, 1309.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash takes 1.05M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.0006, GPT Audio Mini $0.0018 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 62.5 from 5 benchmarks, GPT Audio Mini not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- No category has a result for both models.
- Widest single gap
- No benchmark has a result for both models.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.84 against GPT Audio Mini $2.40 per million output tokens, 2.9x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash takes 1.05M tokens, GPT Audio Mini 128K.
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.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 90.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1618 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 19.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 84.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 45.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 40.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 74.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 46.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 16.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 69.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 73.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| SciCode | 51.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| FrontierCode | 43.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1092.3 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1502 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1496 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1628 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1612 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1606 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 24.7 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.9 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | 86.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LiveBench browser | 84.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 40.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 0.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 53.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 26.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 41.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 57.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 67.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Vals Science Index | 29.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| APEX-Agents | 39.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 86.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 21.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 39.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 89.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI | 94.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Chess puzzles | 48.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 43.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1483 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1501 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1488 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1297 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1307 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 67.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 26.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| ProofBench | 54.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1478 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1485 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 41.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 42.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1469 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1484 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1443 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1461 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1309 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1315 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1330 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1290 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1356 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1320 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1244 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1265 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LiveBench design | 79.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index32 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 79.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 64.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 47.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 85.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 84.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| DTBench | 89.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMCA | 47.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 46.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Furniture assembly | 34.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text | 1464 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1473 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1437 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1278 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1473 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1449 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1501 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1470 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1432 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1436 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1465 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1459 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1467 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1457 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1461 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1473 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1450 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1445 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1288 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1327 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1282 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1260 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1275 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT Audio Mini | 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
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.0006Fits in one request
GPT Audio Mini$0.0018Fits in one request
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.013Fits in one request
GPT Audio Mini$0.037Fits in one request
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.050Fits in one request
GPT Audio Mini$0.144Exceeds the context window
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 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 | OpenAI GPT Audio Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | September 10, 2026 | January 19, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.21 | $0.60 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.84 | $2.40 |
| Coding index | 62.5 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than GPT Audio Mini for coding?
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has a coding score, 62.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; GPT Audio Mini has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or GPT Audio Mini?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.21 per million input tokens and $0.84 per million output tokens; GPT Audio Mini costs $0.60 and $2.40. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or GPT Audio Mini?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT Audio Mini comparison based on?
0 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and GPT Audio Mini's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.