Which model is better: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) or OpenAI o3-mini?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) is 80.0% cheaper for input tokens ($0.22 vs. $1.10 per 1M tokens) and $0.65 vs. $4.40 for output tokens (5.0x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) delivers lower response latency at 310ms TTFT (640ms faster than OpenAI o3-mini) with 165 vs. 98 tok/s throughput. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) leads coding evaluations at 77.4% SWE-bench Verified vs. 49.3% for OpenAI o3-mini and 91.3% vs. 79.7% on GPQA Diamond.
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Choose OpenAI o3-mini (OpenAI) for competitive math reasoning, automated unit test generation, and structured logic pipelines — offering a 204k context window, 950ms TTFT, and $1.10/1M input pricing ($0.550/1M cached reads).
Which is cheaper: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) or OpenAI o3-mini?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) is cheaper at $0.22/1M input tokens ($0.65/1M output) compared to $1.10/1M input ($4.40/1M output) for OpenAI o3-mini.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) or OpenAI o3-mini?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) delivers faster first-token latency at 310ms TTFT (165 tok/s throughput) compared to 950ms TTFT (98 tok/s) for OpenAI o3-mini.
How do DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) and OpenAI o3-mini compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) scores 77.4% versus 49.3% for OpenAI o3-mini. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) scores 91.3% versus 79.7% for OpenAI o3-mini (and 96.4% vs 97.9% on MATH-500).
When should you choose DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp)?
Choose DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) (DeepSeek) for ultra-low-cost open-weight multimodal MoE built for high-throughput visual document OCR, chart interpretation, and real-time autonomous coding agents — offering a 1,048k context window, 310ms TTFT, and $0.22/1M input pricing ($0.007/1M cached reads).
When should you choose OpenAI o3-mini?
Choose OpenAI o3-mini (OpenAI) for competitive math reasoning, automated unit test generation, and structured logic pipelines — offering a 204k context window, 950ms TTFT, and $1.10/1M input pricing ($0.550/1M cached reads).
