DeepSeek R1 vs o1
Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against o1 by OpenAI, in 6 community votes, deepseek r1 wins 75% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 128K vs 128K, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated June 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 or o1?
DeepSeek R1 is the better choice overall, winning 75% of 6 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $15/M for o1. Context windows: 128K vs 128K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 and o1
DeepSeek R1 is made by deepseek while o1 is from openai. DeepSeek R1 has a 128K token context window compared to o1's 128K. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $15/M for o1. In community voting, In 6 community votes, DeepSeek R1 wins 75% of head-to-head duels.
In 6 community votes, DeepSeek R1 wins 75% of head-to-head duels. DeepSeek R1 leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 6+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
DeepSeek R1 is cheaper on both — 27× input, 27× output
Pick DeepSeek R1. In 6 blind votes, DeepSeek R1 wins 75% of the time. That's not luck.
DeepSeek R1 particularly excels in Image Generation. DeepSeek R1 is 27x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
DeepSeek R1 uses 4.3x more emoji
