DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max) vs GPT-6 Sol (High)

Which is better for the money: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max) by DeepSeek or GPT-6 Sol (High) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 34.80
Total cost: $1081

OpenAIGPT-6 Sol (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 42.40
Total cost: $605

Verdict

Pick GPT-6 Sol (High)

GPT-6 Sol (High) vs DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max): 21.8% more intelligence, 44.1% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 7.4% faster end-to-end.

Metric	DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max)	GPT-6 Sol (High)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	34.8	42.4	+21.8% GPT-6 Sol (High) is 21.8% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,081.42	$604.52	−44.1% GPT-6 Sol (High) is 44.1% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	15.95s	14.77s	−7.4% GPT-6 Sol (High) is 7.4% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.44 / $1.32	$2.00 / $10.0
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
GPT-6 Sol (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.

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