Model comparison
DeepSeek-R1 vs GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 42.3 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-R1 costs 22× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Astra's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-6 Astra in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Astra leads 85.1 to 18.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 1.3% for DeepSeek-R1 and 95% for GPT-6 Astra.
- DeepSeek-R1 is cheaper at $0.50 / $2.15 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for GPT-6 Astra.
- GPT-6 Astra accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 164K.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 42.3 | 70.8 |
| Released | 2025-01-20 | 2026-09-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 164K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 64K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.15 | $50 |
| Results tracked | 52 | 56 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-6 Astra leads
DeepSeek-R1: 46.3 (#68), GPT-6 Astra: 73.7 (#2)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.7% | 56.5% |
| WeirdML | 41.6% | 93.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1427 | 1487 |
| ALE-Bench | 804.12 | 2,951 |
| DeepSWE | — | 74.1% |
| FrontierCode | — | 53.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | 71.4% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1786 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 65.5% |
| GSO | — | 79.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 66.7% | — |
| MirrorCode | — | 46.7% |
| AlgoTune | 1.7 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6 Astra leads
DeepSeek-R1: 30.7 (#75), GPT-6 Astra: 52.9 (#3)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 34.9% | 68.3% |
| APEX-Agents | — | 64.7% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 20.8% |
| DeepResearch Bench | 35.1% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 34.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | 53.8% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 15,515 |
Reasoning GPT-6 Astra leads
DeepSeek-R1: 18.6 (#278), GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | 95% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 21.2% | 98.5% |
| CritPt | 1.1% | 31.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1416 | 1462 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.29 | 166.45 |
| SimpleBench | 40.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 69.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 98.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 72% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 76.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 83.2% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 84% |
| DTBench | — | 97.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.8% | — |
| LMCA | — | 64.4% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| ForecastBench | 60 | — |
| LiveBench | 71.6% | — |
Math GPT-6 Astra leads
DeepSeek-R1: 43.8 (#79), GPT-6 Astra: 93.5 (#2)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.4% | 100% |
| LMArena Math | 1400 | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 93.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 97.6% |
| ProofBench | — | 99% |
| Omni-MATH | 42.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 80.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 96.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 2.9% |
Knowledge GPT-6 Astra leads
DeepSeek-R1: 44.5 (#87), GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 95.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.3% | 8.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1394 | 1483 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 54.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 75.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 66.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
DeepSeek-R1: —, GPT-6 Astra: 55.0 (#3)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1281 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 49.7% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 80% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1468 |
Multilingual GPT-6 Astra leads
DeepSeek-R1: 52.4 (#85), GPT-6 Astra: 53.7 (#61)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1412 | 1430 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1442 | 1484 |
| LMArena French | 1417 | 1456 |
| LMArena German | 1404 | 1440 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1391 | 1379 |
| LMArena Korean | 1360 | 1426 |
| LMArena Russian | 1423 | 1436 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1411 | 1407 |
Instruction Following GPT-6 Astra leads
DeepSeek-R1: 72.0 (#143), GPT-6 Astra: 76.3 (#44)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1382 | 1450 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 80.5% | — |
| IFEval | 78.4% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
DeepSeek-R1: 45.4 (#36), GPT-6 Astra: 44.5 (#62)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1391 | 1456 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 75% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-6 Astra leads
DeepSeek-R1: 61.4 (#88), GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#7)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1428 | 1441 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1405 | 1418 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1500 | 2173 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1405 | 1448 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83% | — |
| WildBench | 82.8% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 48.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek-R1 better than GPT-6 Astra?
GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 42.3 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-R1 costs 22× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Astra's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-R1 or GPT-6 Astra?
DeepSeek-R1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.15 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Astra lists at $10 and $50.
Is DeepSeek-R1 or GPT-6 Astra better for coding?
GPT-6 Astra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 73.7 versus 46.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-6 Astra does, with 1.05M tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-R1 and GPT-6 Astra share?
29 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-R1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Astra has 56.