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DeepSeek R1vsGPT-5 Pro
GPT-5 Pro leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. GPT-5 Pro has the larger context window (400K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 1
GPT-5 Pro leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5 Pro
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.9843%
DeepSeek · OpenAI
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek · released 2025-01-20
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- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 33K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 6 only DeepSeek R1 · 2 only GPT-5 Pro| Benchmark | DeepSeek R1 | GPT-5 Pro | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 71.5% ↗ | 88.4% ↗ | -16.9 pt | GPT-5 Pro |
| Only DeepSeek R1 reports · 6 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 49.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMLU | 90.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 84% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 70% ↗matharena | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1372.6 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 53.3% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5 Pro reports · 2 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 19.5% ↗epoch | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 55.8% ↗epoch | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek R1 minus GPT-5 Pro in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | DeepSeek R1 | GPT-5 Pro | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128K tokens | 400K tokens | GPT-5 Pro |
| Max output | 33K tokens | 272K tokens | GPT-5 Pro |
| Input price / 1M | — | $15 ↗ | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | $120 ↗ | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | $135 | — |
| Modalities | text | text · vision | GPT-5 Pro |
| Released | 2025-01-20 | 2025-10-06 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 3 | — |
Reliability
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