DeepSeek V3.1 vs Lyria 3 Clip Preview vs Perceptron Mk1

DeepSeek V3.1 at $0.287 in and $1.09 out, Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 in and $0 out, and Perceptron Mk1 at $0.172 in and $1.73 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

0.23¢

for a client proposal

$0.287 in · $1.09 out / 1M

164K context · released August 2025

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Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for a client proposal

$0 in · $0 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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Perceptron Mk1

Perceptron

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.172 in · $1.73 out / 1M

33K context · released 3 months ago

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Asking all three at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.46¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
Largest context: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

DeepSeek V3.1

0.11¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Perceptron Mk1

0.12¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

DeepSeek V3.1

0.23¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Perceptron Mk1

0.22¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

DeepSeek V3.1

4.9¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Perceptron Mk1

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

DeepSeek V3.1

1.1¢

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Perceptron Mk1

needs 35K ctx

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

DeepSeek V3.1

needs 250K ctx

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Perceptron Mk1

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

DeepSeek V3.1

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Perceptron Mk1

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

DeepSeek V3.1

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Perceptron Mk1

Input / 1M tokens

$0.287

$0.172

Output / 1M tokens

$1.09

$1.73

Cached input / 1M

$0.149

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Specs

DeepSeek V3.1

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Perceptron Mk1

Provider

DeepSeek

Google

Perceptron

Released

August 2025

4 months ago

3 months ago

Context window

164K

1.05M

33K

Max output

33K

66K

Input

Text

Text and Images

Text, Images, and Video

Output

Text

Text and Audio

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2025-03-31

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

0.11¢

for this task

51% input · 49% output

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Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for this task

Full pricing →

Perceptron Mk1

Perceptron

0.12¢

for this task

29% input · 71% output

Full pricing →

All 3, same prompt and context: 0.23¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,147 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Lyria 3 Clip Preview has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Lyria 3 Clip Preview is the cheapest of the three on a typical task, at about free.

For images or files, Lyria 3 Clip Preview and Perceptron Mk1 can read them directly; DeepSeek V3.1 is text-only.

If you want to watch the model think, DeepSeek V3.1 and Perceptron Mk1 show reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all three, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

DeepSeek V3.1 pricing →Lyria 3 Clip Preview pricing →Perceptron Mk1 pricing →Try other combinations →

Questions, answered

Which is cheapest — DeepSeek V3.1, Lyria 3 Clip Preview, or Perceptron Mk1?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Lyria 3 Clip Preview at free; Perceptron Mk1 at 0.22¢; DeepSeek V3.1 at 0.23¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Lyria 3 Clip Preview — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run DeepSeek V3.1, Lyria 3 Clip Preview, and Perceptron Mk1 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 3, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.46¢ for a typical task.

Ask all three at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.46¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.