DeepSeek R1 vs GPT-5
Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against GPT-5 by OpenAI, in 7 community votes, deepseek r1 wins 57% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 128K vs 400K, tested across 51 shared challenges.
Web Design: DeepSeek R1 wins 67% of votes
Image Generation: GPT-5 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
DeepSeek R1Winner
GPT-5Runner-up
DeepSeek R1 has the edge overall. In 7 blind votes, DeepSeek R1 wins 57% of the time.
Pick DeepSeek R1 for Web Design. Pick GPT-5 for Image Generation. DeepSeek R1 is 4.6x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
DeepSeek R1
Input
$0.55
2.3× cheaper
Output
$2.19
4.6× cheaper
GPT-5
Input
$1.25
Output
$10.00
DeepSeek R1 is cheaper on both — 2.3× input, 4.6× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
42%
DeepSeek R1 uses 4.3x more emoji
DeepSeek R1
GPT-5
62%Vocabulary65%
15wSentence Length13w
0.52Hedging0.20
8.0Bold0.2
5.7Lists4.6
0.04Emoji0.00
0.62Headings0.16
0.28Transitions0.03
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