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R1 vs GPT-5.4 Mini

List-price comparison · R1 details · GPT-5.4 Mini details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), R1 costs 32% less $184.00/mo vs $270.00/mo.

 R1GPT-5.4 Mini
Input / 1M tokens$0.700$0.750
Output / 1M tokens$2.50$4.50
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0018$0.0027
Context window163,840 tokens400k tokens
Max output16k tokens128k tokens
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI

Projected monthly cost

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R1

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GPT-5.4 Mini

Good default for everyday chat, summarization, and lightweight agent steps where GPT-5.4-level reasoning isn't required.

Quality gap widens on long, multi-hop reasoning tasks — needs careful prompt design to avoid silent failures on edge cases.

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