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GROUNDED IN REAL HUMAN CONVERSATIONSYOUR BENCH
HEAD TO HEAD
DeepSeek V4 Flash vs GPT-5 vs Step 1
Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
DeepSeek V4 Flash
LOVE
People feel it is worth the money
COMPLAINT
Outages, errors, or limits get in the way
GPT-5
LOVE
Popular for coding help
COMPLAINT
People find it expensive
Step 1
LOVE
Popular for coding help
COMPLAINT
Sometimes makes things up
VALUE FOR MONEY
NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 1STILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.
| Metric | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VIBE SCORE | 7.4 | 6.8 | 7.4 |
| VOICES | 6,414 | 1,019 | 3,802 |
| RANK | #11 | #51 | #13 |
| CATEGORY | Text | Multimodal | Text |
| OPEN/CLOSED | OPEN WEIGHTS | OPEN WEIGHTS | CLOSED |
| PRICE IN (per 1M) | $0.065 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | N/A |
| PRICE OUT (per 1M) | $0.18 / 1M | $50.00 / 1M | N/A |
| THE CROWD LOVES | People feel it is worth the money | Popular for coding help | Popular for coding help |
| THE CROWD GRUMBLES | Outages, errors, or limits get in the way | People find it expensive | Sometimes makes things up |
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