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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ·DeepSeek vs OpenAI

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 profile OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 — DeepSeek
Quality
#4 of 65
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#220 of 341
40.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#260 of 450
$1.19
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.96 · Out $1.91
Cache hit price
#160 of 344
$0.080
per 1M tokens (−92%)
Context
#47 of 487
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI
Quality
#33 of 65
68based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#59 of 341
94.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#62 of 450
$0.14
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.05 · Out $0.40
Cache hit price
#22 of 344
$0.005
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#193 of 487
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 scores 93 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano scores 68 — a 26-point lead for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 ahead on 2 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $1.19 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and $0.14 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is about 8.7× cheaper.

Throughput is 40 tokens per second for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and 94 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano, with time to first token at 1.6s and 2.5s. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 400k.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is proprietary. 22 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 9 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 68 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.19 $0.14
Output tok/s 40 94
Context window 1.05M 400k
Providers 21 2
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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: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 93 68
Mathematics Index 89
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: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 · marker = OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 69
Mock AIME 2024–2597 / 81

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 / OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 leads on 2 of 2, OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano on 0.

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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: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Text Arena 1,451
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,458
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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: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Input $/1M $0.96 $0.05
Output $/1M $1.91 $0.40
Blended $/1M $1.19 $0.14
Cache read $/1M $0.080 $0.005
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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: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Context window 1.05M 400k
Max output tokens 384k 128k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Output tokens/s 40 94
Time to first token 1.6s 2.5s
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Providers

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

22 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 tok/s OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano blendedOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano tok/s
BaseTen $2.17 65
Parasail $2.17 63
CoreWeave $1.50 55
Novita $2.00 49
Azure · first party $2.39 46 $0.14 68
Baidu · first party $2.11 43
Alibaba · first party $1.77 39
Together $2.17 39
Venice $2.06 38
NextBit $2.24 37
Ionstream $1.41 35
SiliconFlow $1.91 34
StreamLake $1.19 34
DeepSeek · first party $0.99 31
DeepInfra $1.62 30
Wafer $1.50 28
AtlasCloud $2.10 27
DigitalOcean $1.09 27
GMICloud $1.20 26
Cloudflare $1.50 12
Fireworks $1.20
OpenAI · first party $0.07 116

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

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