DeepSeek R1 vs ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)

Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against ChatGPT-4o (March 2025) by OpenAI, in 1 community votes, deepseek r1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 128K vs 128K, tested across 31 shared challenges. Updated March 2026.

Which is better, DeepSeek R1 or ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)?

DeepSeek R1 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 1 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $5/M for ChatGPT-4o (March 2025). Context windows: 128K vs 128K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.

Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 and ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)

DeepSeek R1 is made by deepseek while ChatGPT-4o (March 2025) is from openai. DeepSeek R1 has a 128K token context window compared to ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)'s 128K. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $5/M for ChatGPT-4o (March 2025). In community voting, In 1 community votes, DeepSeek R1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.

In 1 community votes, DeepSeek R1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 1+ human preference judgments for this pair.

Our Verdict
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek R1Winner
ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)
ChatGPT-4o (March 2025)Runner-up

Pick DeepSeek R1. In 1 blind votes, DeepSeek R1 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.

DeepSeek R1 is 6.8x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.

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