DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-5.4

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

Metric
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekdeepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
GPT-5.4OpenAIopenai/gpt-5.4
Creator
DeepSeek
OpenAI
Released
Sep 14, 2026
Mar 5, 2026
Context window
1.05M
1.05M (best)
Max output
944K (best)
128K
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$0.20$0.20–$0.30 across 5 (best)
$2.50$2.50–$2.75 across 2
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$0.60$0.60–$1.20 across 5 (best)
$15.00$15.00–$16.50 across 2
Providers
5 (best)
2
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
39.5 (best)
39.0
CodingArtificial Analysis index
—
71.1
LatencyMedian time to first token
—
19s
ThroughputMedian tokens per second
—
<1 t/s
Accepts
Text, Image
Text, Image, Files
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
No
Yes
Reasoning
No
Yes

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-5.4: summary

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GPT-5.4 are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, from DeepSeek, has a 1,048,576-token context window, costs from $0.20/1M input and $0.60/1M output tokens across 5 providers and scores 39.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

GPT-5.4, from OpenAI, has a 1,050,000-token context window, costs from $2.50/1M input and $15.00/1M output tokens across 2 providers and scores 39.0 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the cheapest on input, 13× cheaper than the next model, GPT-5.4 has the largest context window and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores highest for intelligence.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="openai/gpt-5.4", messages=[...])
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Benchmark scores sourced from ArtificialAnalysis