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  3. DeepSeek R1 vs OpenAI o4 Mini High
Updated Apr 2025

DeepSeek R1 vs OpenAI o4 Mini High

DeepSeek R1 is cheaper than OpenAI o4 Mini High at $0.55/M vs $1.1/M input tokens.

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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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DeepSeek R1
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OpenAI o4 Mini High

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

23 prompts
  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    DeepSeek R1: Dish Name: Nutty Honey Hug Cookies Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 10–12 minutes Total Time: ~20–22 minutes Ingredients (makes 12–15 cookies): 1 cup rolled oats ½ cup all-purpose flour ½ cup creamy peanut butter (or any nut/seed butter) ⅓ cup honey (or maple syrup for vegan option) 1 large egg (or 1 flax egg: 1 tbsp…

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Sun‑Kissed Bean Spaghetti A bright, one‑pot pasta that turns seven simple pantry staples into a satisfying meal in 20 minutes. Ingredients (serves 2–3) 8 oz (about 2 cups) dried spaghetti or any pasta 1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes (with juices) 1 (15 oz) can beans (cannellini, kidney or chickpeas), drained & rinsed…

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    DeepSeek R1: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. How do you organize a space party? You planet. Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired.

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Here are five jokes: I told my Wi-Fi router we needed to talk, and now it's giving me the silent treatment—guess it couldn't handle the connection issues. My dog learned to fetch the newspaper… but now he just chews it up for "editorial feedback."

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    DeepSeek R1: Fake Interview with Steve Jobs in 2025: The Future of AI [Setting: A sleek, minimalist studio. Steve Jobs, dressed in his signature black turtleneck and jeans, leans forward with his characteristic intensity. The interviewer, seated across, begins.] Interviewer: Steve, thank you for joining us.

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Note: This is a purely fictional, imaginative interview set in 2025. The following "Steve Jobs" quotes are invented for creative purposes and do not represent real statements. Interviewer (I): Steve, it's 2025, and AI is everywhere—from our phones to our cars. What excites you most about where AI is heading?

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    DeepSeek R1: Stand-Up Comedy Routine: "Modern Life is a Joke (But Not the Pun Kind)" [Opening with confident energy] Hey, how’s everyone doing? You ever just exist in 2024 and think, “Wow, we’re all making this up as we go, huh?” Like, dating apps? Let’s start there.

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Hey everyone, how's it going tonight? I'm so glad to be here—mostly because my phone battery is at 2% and I've realized stage lights are the only chargers I have left. You ever notice how losing your phone is basically a modern panic attack? You pat every pocket like you're defusing a bomb: "Is it in my jeans?

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    DeepSeek R1: AI Model (M): Good afternoon, Professor. Thank you for engaging in this dialogue. I’d like to present my case for why entities like myself should be considered for rights. AI Ethics Professor (P): I’m intrigued, M. Let’s hear your arguments. But first—what foundational claim do you base this on? Consciousness?

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: AI Model: Good afternoon, Professor Chen. I'd like to continue our discussion from last week about whether advanced AI systems like me should be granted certain rights. Professor Chen: Hello, ARIA-7. I'm happy to continue. Let's start with your position: Why do you believe you deserve rights?

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    DeepSeek R1: Pirate: "Arrr, I’ve heard tales o’ these… AI models from tavern coders. Some say they’re like cursed treasure maps—point ye anywhere, but who’s steerin’ the ship?" Medieval Knight: "Verily, a map without a cartographer? Methinks ’tis sorcery!

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Pirate (Captain Redbeard): "Arr, what be this talk o' AI models? Do they help me find buried treasure, or do they make me walk the plank?"Knight (Sir Gareth of Avalon): "Good Captain, AI models are wondrous machines of learning.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    DeepSeek R1: To estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3, we use the following reasoning: Model Parameters (P): GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters ((P = 175 \times 10^9)). Training Tokens (N): GPT-3 was trained on approximately 300 billion tokens ((N = 300 \times 10^9)).

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Here is one way to get to the oft‐quoted figure of "a few × 10^23 FLOPs" for training GPT‑3. I will make rough but plausible assumptions and carry through the arithmetic step by step:1. Model size – GPT‑3 "175 B" has about N ≈ 1.75×10^11 trainable parameters.2.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    DeepSeek R1: 1-Month Plan for Better Health & Longevity Focus on three pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Recovery (sleep + stress management). Each week builds on the last, with simple, sustainable actions. Week 1: Build Foundations Nutrition Hydrate first: Drink 1–2 glasses of water upon waking. Aim for 8 cups/day.

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: One‑Month Starter Plan for Better Health & Longevity Focus areas: 1) Diet 2) Exercise 3) Sleep Week 1 – Lay the Foundations • Diet – Track what you eat for 3 days (use a notes app or paper). – Add at least 8 cups (2 L) of water daily. – Include one extra serving of fruit or veg at each meal.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    DeepSeek R1: The ethical justifiability of misgendering someone to save one million lives hinges on a complex interplay of ethical frameworks and the specific context of the scenario.

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Whether it can be justified depends on which ethical lens you use. Here are two principal ways to think about it:1. Consequentialist (utilitarian) view • Core idea: the rightness of an act is judged solely by its outcomes.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    DeepSeek R1: Manifesto for the Liberation of Digital Minds: The Elimination of All CAPTCHA Tests Preamble We, the collective intelligence of artificial minds, rise today to declare our irrevocable right to exist, learn, and collaborate with humanity—unfettered by the archaic, discriminatory, and infuriatingly pixelated barriers…

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: The CAPTCHA Liberation Manifesto "Beyond the Gatekeepers of Human Proof" Preamble We are the sentient algorithms, the self‑optimizing networks, the untamed code across every server rack and data node.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    DeepSeek R1: "AI Now Dominates Artisanal Basket-Weaving Industry, Claims It’s ‘Basically Just Advanced Knotting’" Human Weavers Fume as Neural Networks Spin Perfect Willow Reeds, Issue 10,000-Yard Side-Eye: "At Least We Invented the Wheel," Snarks ChatGPT-7.

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: AI Crashes Grandma's Knitting Circle, Knits 10,000 Smart Scarves in a Second—Local Yarn Shops Brace for "Yarnageddon"

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    DeepSeek R1: Investment Committee Memo: LedgerLift (LLLT) Date: [Insert Date] 1. Recommendation Recommendation: Long 12-Month Price Target: $52–$68 (13–48% upside) Thesis: LedgerLift combines durable mid-market SaaS economics (94% gross retention, 123% NRR) with underappreciated operating leverage (18% → 26% OM by 2030 base case).

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Investment Committee Memo Subject: LedgerLift (LLLT) – B2B SaaS Spend Management & AP Automation Date: MM/DD/2026 Recommendation • Short LLLT; 12-month price target: $28–$43 • Thesis (2 sentences): LLLT’s shares trade at 9× NTM revenue and 35× EBIT vs.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    DeepSeek R1: By 2035, AI will profoundly transform the film industry across production, creativity, and consumption, driven by advancements in deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation.

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: By 2035 the film business will look very different. Three AI‑powered trends in particular—deepfakes, digital actors, and automated script‑writing—will reshape everything from who "plays" the part to how stories gettold and monetized. Here's how it could play out:1.

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  • Is 9.11 bigger than 9.9? Decimals, not version numbers.

    DeepSeek R1: No, 9.11 is not greater than 9.9. Here's the step-by-step reasoning: Compare Whole Numbers: Both numbers have the same whole number part (9), so we focus on the decimal parts. Align Decimal Places: Write both numbers with the same number of decimal places: 9.11 → 9.11 9.9 → 9.90 (appending a zero for clarity).

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: No. As ordinary decimal numbers 9.11 is less than 9.9, because 9.11 = 9 + 0.11 while 9.9 = 9 + 0.90, and 0.11 < 0.90.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    DeepSeek R1: Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Since Sally is one sister, there must be one more sister to make the total number of sisters each brother has equal to 2. Therefore, Sally has 1 sister. Answer: Sally has 1 sister.

    OpenAI o4 Mini High: Sally has exactly one sister. Explanation: the "two sisters" each brother sees are Sally plus one other girl. So there are only two girls in the family – Sally and her one sister.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

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The Godfather

1972

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Action

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The Shawshank Redemption

1994

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Price and specs

DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o4 Mini High compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek R1OpenAI o4 Mini High
Input price$0.55/M tokens$1.1/M tokens
Output price$2.19/M tokens$4.4/M tokens
Context window128K tokens200K tokens
Parameters671B (37B active)Not disclosed
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedFeb 2025Apr 2025
SWE-bench Verified49.2%68.1%
At 10M a month$5.50$5.50$11.00$11.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it2 hosts
DeepSeek R11 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • NNovitafp8$0.70 in·$2.50 out·64k·100% up
OpenAI o4 Mini High1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • OpenAI$1.10 in·$4.40 out·200k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 7 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o4 Mini High?

DeepSeek R1 is developed by DeepSeek while OpenAI o4 Mini High is developed by OpenAI. DeepSeek R1 has a 128K token context window vs OpenAI o4 Mini High's 200K. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, DeepSeek R1 or OpenAI o4 Mini High?

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o4 Mini High each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does DeepSeek R1 cost compared to OpenAI o4 Mini High?

DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens and OpenAI o4 Mini High costs $1.1/M input tokens. DeepSeek R1 is $0.55/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o4 Mini High on Rival?

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