DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GPT-5 Mini

DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.500 in and $1.00 out and GPT-5 Mini at $0.287 in and $2.30 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek

0.33¢

for a client proposal

$0.500 in · $1.00 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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GPT-5 Mini

OpenAI

0.33¢

for a client proposal

$0.287 in · $2.30 out / 1M

400K context · released August 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.66¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GPT-5 Mini at $0.287 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: DeepSeek V4 Pro at $1.00 per million tokens.
Largest context: DeepSeek V4 Pro 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 V4 Pro

0.15¢

GPT-5 Mini

0.17¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

DeepSeek V4 Pro

0.33¢

GPT-5 Mini

0.33¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

DeepSeek V4 Pro

$0.08

GPT-5 Mini

$0.05

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1.9¢

GPT-5 Mini

1.2¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

DeepSeek V4 Pro

$0.13

GPT-5 Mini

$0.08

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

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80% Input20% Output

DeepSeek V4 Pro

GPT-5 Mini

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

Pricing

DeepSeek V4 Pro

GPT-5 Mini

Input / 1M tokens

$0.500

$0.287

Output / 1M tokens

$1.00

$2.30

Cached input / 1M

$0.0042

$0.029

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Specs

DeepSeek V4 Pro

GPT-5 Mini

Provider

DeepSeek

OpenAI

Released

4 months ago

August 2025

Context window

1.05M

400K

Max output

384K

128K

Input

Text

Text, Images, and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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2024-05-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek

0.15¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

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GPT-5 Mini

OpenAI

0.17¢

for this task

33% input · 67% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.32¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,550 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, DeepSeek V4 Pro has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, GPT-5 Mini is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.33¢.

For images or files, GPT-5 Mini can read them directly; DeepSeek V4 Pro is text-only.

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

DeepSeek V4 Pro pricing →GPT-5 Mini pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or GPT-5 Mini?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GPT-5 Mini at 0.33¢; DeepSeek V4 Pro at 0.33¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

DeepSeek V4 Pro — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run DeepSeek V4 Pro and GPT-5 Mini side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.66¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.66¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.