Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GPT-6 Astra?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has the lowest input price. Per 1M input tokens: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash from $0.20 and GPT-6 Astra from $10.00.

Which has the larger context window, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GPT-6 Astra?

GPT-6 Astra has the largest context window: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1,048,576 tokens and GPT-6 Astra 1,050,000 tokens.

Can I switch between DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GPT-6 Astra without changing my code?

Yes. All of them are served through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching is a change of the model parameter (deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash, openai/gpt-6-astra).

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-6 Astra

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

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeekdeepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash

GPT-6 Astra OpenAIopenai/gpt-6-astra

Creator

DeepSeek

OpenAI

Released

Sep 14, 2026

Sep 4, 2026

Context window

1.05M

Max output

944K

128K

Input / 1MLowest provider price

$0.20$0.20–$0.30 across 5

$10.00

Output / 1MLowest provider price

$0.60$0.60–$1.20 across 5

$50.00

Providers

IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index

39.5

50.9

CodingArtificial Analysis index

—

77.1

Accepts

Text, Image

Produces

Text

Tool calling

Yes

Structured output

Yes

Reasoning

Yes

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-6 Astra: summary

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GPT-6 Astra 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-6 Astra, from OpenAI, has a 1,050,000-token context window, costs $10.00/1M input and $50.00/1M output tokens and scores 50.9 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the cheapest on input, 50× cheaper than the next model, GPT-6 Astra has the largest context window and GPT-6 Astra 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-6-astra", messages=[...])

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