DeepSeek V3 0324 vs GPT-6 Luna (Medium)

Which is better for the money: DeepSeek V3 0324 by DeepSeek or GPT-6 Luna (Medium) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

DeepSeekDeepSeek V3 0324On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 9.70
Total cost: $19.9

OpenAIGPT-6 Luna (Medium)On the frontier

Intelligence: 29.90
Total cost: $31.2

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 20.2 points higher (29.9 vs 9.7) but costs 1.6× as much to run the benchmark ($31.2 vs $19.9; both budget class). Pick GPT-6 Luna (Medium) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise DeepSeek V3 0324.

Metric	DeepSeek V3 0324	GPT-6 Luna (Medium)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	9.7	29.9	+208.2% GPT-6 Luna (Medium) is 3.1× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$19.87	$31.17	+56.9% GPT-6 Luna (Medium) is 56.9% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	4.96s	8.25s	+66.3% GPT-6 Luna (Medium) is 66.3% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.24 / $0.90	$0.10 / $0.50
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GPT-6 Luna (Medium) vs DeepSeek V3 0324: 208.2% more intelligence, 56.9% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 66.3% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

DeepSeek V3 0324 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.
GPT-6 Luna (Medium) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.

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