The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
DeepSeek: R1 vs OpenAI: o1 ·DeepSeek vs OpenAI

DeepSeek: R1 vs OpenAI: o1 — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: R1 profile OpenAI: o1 profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: R1 — DeepSeek
Quality
#21 of 62
75based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#154 of 317
49.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#222 of 370
$1.15
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.70 · Out $2.50
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
#251 of 375
164k
tokens (~300 pages)
OpenAI: o1 — OpenAI
Quality
#28 of 62
70based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#105 of 317
62.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#360 of 370
$26.25
Blended per 1M tokens
In $15.00 · Out $60.00
Cache hit price
#238 of 238
$7.50
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#228 of 375
200k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: R1 scores 75 and OpenAI: o1 scores 70 — a 5-point lead for DeepSeek: R1. They share 10 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: R1 ahead on 2 and OpenAI: o1 ahead on 8.

Blended pricing is $1.15 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: R1 and $26.25 for OpenAI: o1 — DeepSeek: R1 is about 22.8× cheaper.

Throughput is 49 tokens per second for DeepSeek: R1 and 62 for OpenAI: o1, with time to first token at 1.2s and 4.5s. DeepSeek: R1 accepts 164k tokens of context against 200k.

DeepSeek: R1 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); OpenAI: o1 is proprietary. 3 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: R1OpenAI: o1
Known Good Index 75 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 70 based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.15 $26.25
Output tok/s 49 62
Context window 164k 200k
Providers 2 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricDeepSeek: R1OpenAI: o1
Known Good Index 75 70
Mathematics Index 74 85
Reasoning Index 77 62
Openness Index 60 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: R1 · marker = OpenAI: o1 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0), LiveBench (Apache-2.0)

GPQA Diamond69 / 77
Mock AIME 2024–2553 / 73
MATH Level 593 / 95
LiveBench72 / 76
LiveBench Coding67 / 70
LiveBench Data Analysis70 / 65
LiveBench Instruction Following81 / 82
LiveBench Language49 / 65
LiveBench Mathematics81 / 80
LiveBench Reasoning83 / 92

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: R1 / OpenAI: o1. DeepSeek: R1 leads on 2 of 10, OpenAI: o1 on 8.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1OpenAI: o1
Text Arena 1,373 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,398 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1OpenAI: o1
Input $/1M $0.70 $15.00
Output $/1M $2.50 $60.00
Blended $/1M $1.15 $26.25
Cache read $/1M — $7.500
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1OpenAI: o1
Context window 164k 200k
Max output tokens 16k 100k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: R1OpenAI: o1
Output tokens/s 49 62
Time to first token 1.2s 4.5s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

3 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: R1 blendedDeepSeek: R1 tok/s OpenAI: o1 blendedOpenAI: o1 tok/s
Azure · first party $2.60 64 — —
Novita $1.15 32 — —
OpenAI · first party — — $26.25 —

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →