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DeepSeek V3vsGPT-5 mini
GPT-5 mini leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. GPT-5 mini has the larger context window (400K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 4
GPT-5 mini leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5 mini
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.2446%
DeepSeek · OpenAI
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26
text
- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 8K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
GPT-5 mini
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 3 only DeepSeek V3 · 4 only GPT-5 mini| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 | GPT-5 mini | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 42% ↗ | 71% ↗ | -29 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.1% ↗ | 81.6% ↗ | -22.5 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| AIME 2025 | 25% ↗matharena | 87.5% ↗matharena ⚠ | -62.5 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 15.8% ↗epoch | 86.7% ↗epoch | -70.9 pt | GPT-5 mini |
| Only DeepSeek V3 reports · 3 | ||||
| MMLU | 88.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 75.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1332.4 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5 mini reports · 4 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 12.2% ↗epoch | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 46.7% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 21.6% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 64.7% ↗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 V3 minus GPT-5 mini 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 V3 | GPT-5 mini | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128K tokens | 400K tokens | GPT-5 mini |
| Max output | 8K tokens | 128K tokens | GPT-5 mini |
| Input price / 1M | — | $0.25 ↗ | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | $2 ↗ | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.025 ↗ | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | $2.25 | — |
| Modalities | text | text · vision | GPT-5 mini |
| Released | 2024-12-26 | 2025-08-07 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 9 | — |
Reliability
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