Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Family / tier | DeepSeek V4 · Flash | GPT-5 · mini |
| Status | retired | GA |
| Released | 2026-04-24 | 2026-03-17 |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2026-02 | 2025-08 |
| Context window | 1M | 400K |
| Max output tokens | 384K | 128K |
| Input modalities | text | text, image |
| Reasoning mode | optional | optional |
| Open weights | Yes | No |
| Input | $0.14 | $0.75 |
| Output | $0.28 | $4.5 |
| Cached input | $0.0028 | $0.075 |
| Batch input | — | $0.375 |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Output speed (tok/s) | — | 180 |
| Time to first token (s) | — | 0.5 |
| Latency tier | fast | fast |
| Trains on inputs | Yes | No |
| License | MIT | Proprietary |
| Clouds | — | Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry |
| Compliance | — | SOC2, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA |
| Unified score | 8.7 | 9 |
| Decision Maker | 8.5 | 9 |
| Domain Strategist | 8.5 | 9 |
| Finance Lead | 9.7 | 10 |
| Domain Practitioner | 8.5 | 9 |
| Power User | 8 | 8 |
| Skeptic | 7.5 | 8.5 |
| Value score | 9.9 | 9.8 |