Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GPT-5.1

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 48.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 37 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek

54.2

Rank #28 Confirmed

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

48.8

Rank #47 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 37 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-5.1 in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 56.4 to 39.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 61.3% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 17.6% for GPT-5.1.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper at $0.43 / $0.87 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.1.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 400K.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Pro and GPT-5.1 specifications
DeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index54.248.8
Released2026-04-242025-11-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M400K
Max output393K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.43$1.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.87$10
Results tracked4863

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.2 (#31), GPT-5.1: 46.9 (#59)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
SWE-bench Verified77.6%68%
LMArena WebDev15821395
SciCode51%43.3%
WeirdML66.2%60.8%
LMArena Coding14701454
ALE-Bench1,4031,192
FrontierCode28.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—66%
GSO—13.7%
LiveBench Coding—72.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.7 (#54), GPT-5.1: 32.5 (#55)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
Vending-Bench 23,2851,473
Terminal-Bench—47.6%
APEX-Agents47.3%—
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
LMArena Search—1199

Reasoning DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.4 (#22), GPT-5.1: 39.9 (#50)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
ARC-AGI-261.3%17.6%
ARC-AGI-190.5%72.8%
CritPt18%4.9%
Chess Puzzles47%32%
LMArena Hard Prompts14611457
Mystery Game Puzzles43%19%
DTBench93.9%90.1%
LMCA45.5%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.39149.66
ForecastBench56.158.1
SimpleBench—53.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
EnigmaEval—11.2%
LiveBench Reasoning—95.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—72.1%
Surface Evolver Bench40%—
LiveBench—78.8%

Math DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.6 (#24), GPT-5.1: 50.3 (#45)

Knowledge DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#28), GPT-5.1: 50.5 (#65)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
GPQA Diamond91.7%87.6%
SimpleQA Verified52.9%48%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.6%10.9%
LMArena Expert14631470
Humanity's Last Exam—23.7%
MMLU-Pro—57.9%
GPQA (HELM)—44.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: —, GPT-5.1: 44.0 (#17)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
LMArena Vision—1250
VPCT—58.7%
LMArena Document—1403

Multilingual Too close to call

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.5 (#44), GPT-5.1: 54.0 (#51)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
LMArena Non-English14381431
LMArena Chinese14861495
LMArena French14731451
LMArena German14581439
LMArena Japanese14481453
LMArena Korean14521401
LMArena Russian14521435
LMArena Spanish14571430

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.3 (#44), GPT-5.1: 84.0 (#1)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
LMArena Instruction Following14481442
LiveBench Instruction Following—93.3%
IFEval—93.5%

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#49), GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
CL-bench Life13.5%17.3%
LMArena Longer Query14591448
CL-bench—23.7%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.6 (#45), GPT-5.1: 64.7 (#53)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGPT-5.1
LMArena Text14511443
LMArena Creative Writing14461427
LMArena Multi-Turn14671449
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1553—
WildBench—86.3%
EQ-Bench 41166—
LiveBench Language—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than GPT-5.1?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 48.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or GPT-5.1?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.43 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1 lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro or GPT-5.1 better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 46.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Pro does, with 1M tokens against 400K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Pro and GPT-5.1 share?

37 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.1 has 63.

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