DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GPT-6.1 Sol.
DeepSeek V4 Pro is 2.1x cheaper.

For a chatbot doing 100K requests a month with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each: $330.00 vs $700.00.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Input / 1M$1.32
Cached / 1M$0.044
Output / 1M$3.96
Context1M
Chatbot at 100K req/mo$330.00

Source · Oct 20, 2026

OpenAI

GPT-6.1 Sol

Input / 1M$2.00
Cached / 1M$0.10
Output / 1M$10.00
Context—
Chatbot at 100K req/mo$700.00

Source · Oct 20, 2026

Price isn't everything: check quality on your own prompts. DeepSeek V4 Pro wins on list price for this workload, but output-heavy jobs (long answers, agents, reasoning) shift the math toward whichever model has the lower output price, which here is DeepSeek V4 Pro.

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