Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs GPT-5.4 Pro

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.9 to 53.6 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek V4 Flash costs 257× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek

53.6

Rank #35 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI

58.9

Rank #18 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5.4 Pro in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 Pro leads 70.7 to 53.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath Tier 4: 24.4% for DeepSeek V4 Flash and 58.5% for GPT-5.4 Pro.
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $180 for GPT-5.4 Pro.
  • GPT-5.4 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Flash and GPT-5.4 Pro specifications
DeepSeek V4 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index53.658.9
Released2026-04-242026-03-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M1.05M
Max output393K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$30
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$180
Results tracked4116

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 47.9 (#59), GPT-5.4 Pro: 43.2 (#90)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
WeirdML63%57.4%
FrontierCode18.8%—
LMArena WebDev1582—
SciCode49.9%—
LMArena Coding1457—
ALE-Bench1,306—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.7 (#30), GPT-5.4 Pro: 70.7 (#13)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
ARC-AGI-261.4%83.3%
SimpleBench61.1%74.1%
ARC-AGI-189%94.5%
CritPt16.6%30%
Chess Puzzles33%58.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.49158.93
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%—
EnigmaEval—23.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts1444—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA41.7%—

Math GPT-5.4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 60.3 (#37), GPT-5.4 Pro: 72.4 (#22)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 55.4 (#48), GPT-5.4 Pro: 68.3 (#7)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
GPQA Diamond91%94.6%
SimpleQA Verified33.6%46.3%
Humanity's Last Exam—44.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.3%
LMArena Expert1441—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.0 (#72), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Non-English1420—
LMArena Chinese1468—
LMArena French1439—
LMArena German1418—
LMArena Japanese1406—
LMArena Korean1384—
LMArena Russian1428—
LMArena Spanish1436—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 74.9 (#81), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1421—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 43.8 (#85), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Longer Query1434—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 63.8 (#61), GPT-5.4 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGPT-5.4 Pro
LMArena Text1432—
LMArena Creative Writing1403—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1449—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash better than GPT-5.4 Pro?

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.9 to 53.6 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek V4 Flash costs 257× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash or GPT-5.4 Pro?

DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 Pro lists at $30 and $180.

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash or GPT-5.4 Pro better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.9 versus 43.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Flash and GPT-5.4 Pro share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Flash has 41 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 Pro has 16.

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