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DeepSeek R1 vs GPT-6 Luna

List-price comparison ·DeepSeek R1 details ·GPT-6 Luna details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), GPT-6 Luna is the cheapest — 78% less than the priciest here ($32.00/mo vs $146.00/mo).

 DeepSeek R1GPT-6 Luna
Input / 1M tokens$0.500$0.100
Output / 1M tokens$2.15$0.500
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0015$0.0003
Context window163,840 tokens1050k tokens
Max output32,768 tokens128k tokens
Quality score84/10096/100
TierFlagshipFlagship
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moDeepSeek R1GPT-6 Luna
1,000$1.46$0.32
10,000$14.60$3.20
100,000$146.00$32.00
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DeepSeek R1

Chain-of-thought reasoning competitive with closed flagship models on math and logic benchmarks, at open-weight pricing.

Emits long reasoning traces that inflate output token counts and cost — cap reasoning length or use a distilled variant for latency-sensitive paths.

GPT-6 Luna

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