DeepSeek R1 0528 vs o3 Mini
Compare DeepSeek R1 0528 by DeepSeek against o3 Mini by OpenAI, in 5 community votes, o3 mini wins 60% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 164K vs 64K, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 0528 or o3 Mini?
o3 Mini is the better choice overall, winning 60% of 5 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 0528 costs $0/M input tokens vs $1.1/M for o3 Mini. Context windows: 164K vs 64K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 0528 and o3 Mini
DeepSeek R1 0528 is made by deepseek while o3 Mini is from openai. DeepSeek R1 0528 has a 164K token context window compared to o3 Mini's 64K. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 0528 costs $0/M input tokens vs $1.1/M for o3 Mini. In community voting, In 5 community votes, o3 Mini wins 60% of head-to-head duels.
In 5 community votes, o3 Mini wins 60% of head-to-head duels. DeepSeek R1 0528 leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 5+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Pick o3 Mini. In 5 blind votes, o3 Mini wins 60% of the time. That's not luck.
DeepSeek R1 0528 particularly excels in Image Generation.
Style Comparison
o3 Mini uses 37.9x more transitions
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