Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs o1

DeepSeek V4 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.6 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek

53.6

Rank #35 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher in 7 categories and o1 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek V4 Flash leads 53.7 to 27.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 89% for DeepSeek V4 Flash and 30.7% for o1.
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Flash and o1 specifications
DeepSeek V4 Flasho1
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index53.640.9
Released2026-04-242024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M200K
Max output393K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$15
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$60
Results tracked4152

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 47.9 (#59), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
WeirdML63%47.6%
LMArena Coding14571367
FrontierCode18.8%—
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
LMArena WebDev1582—
SciCode49.9%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench1,306—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.7 (#30), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
SimpleBench61.1%41.7%
ARC-AGI-189%30.7%
Chess Puzzles33%15%
LMArena Hard Prompts14441371
DTBench90.9%74.7%
LMCA41.7%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.49141.91
ARC-AGI-261.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%—
CritPt16.6%—
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LiveBench—75.7%

Math DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 60.3 (#37), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 55.4 (#48), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
GPQA Diamond91%76.8%
SimpleQA Verified33.6%41.1%
LMArena Expert14411361
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
Confabulations—11.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.0 (#72), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
LMArena Non-English14201358
LMArena Chinese14681394
LMArena French14391344
LMArena German14181337
LMArena Japanese14061346
LMArena Korean13841396
LMArena Russian14281356
LMArena Spanish14361345

Instruction Following Too close to call

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 74.9 (#81), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
LMArena Instruction Following14211367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 43.8 (#85), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
LMArena Longer Query14341378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 63.8 (#61), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flasho1
LMArena Text14321366
LMArena Creative Writing14031348
LMArena Multi-Turn14491369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash better than o1?

DeepSeek V4 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.6 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash or o1?

DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash or o1 better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.9 versus 46.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Flash and o1 share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Flash has 41 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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