PRICING SNAPSHOT 2026-08-04CLAUDE FABLE 5 $10.00/$50.00 MTOKCLAUDE OPUS 5 $5.00/$25.00 MTOKCLAUDE OPUS 4.8 $5.00/$25.00 MTOKCLAUDE SONNET 5 $2.00/$10.00 MTOKCLAUDE HAIKU 4.5 $1.00/$5.00 MTOKGPT-5.6 $5.00/$30.00 MTOKGPT-5.5 $5.00/$30.00 MTOKGPT-5.4 $2.50/$15.00 MTOKGPT-5 MINI $0.25/$2.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.1 PRO $2.00/$12.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.6 FLASH $1.50/$7.50 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI OMNI FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI 3 FLASH $0.50/$3.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH LITE $0.30/$2.50 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 PRO $0.43/$0.87 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 FLASH $0.14/$0.28 MTOK
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GPT-5 MINI VS DEEPSEEK V4 FLASH

OpenAI vs DeepSeek, in USD per million tokens, verified daily against public list prices. Same jobs, both meters running.

THE VERDICT
6.4x

GPT-5 Mini costs 6.4x more than DeepSeek V4 Flash for the same job — a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply runs $0.0063 vs $0.0010. At 1,000 runs a day, that gap is $158.10 a month for identical traffic.

SIDE BY SIDE

GPT-5 Mini →DeepSeek V4 Flash →
VendorOpenAIDeepSeek
Input / MTok$0.250$0.140
Output / MTok$2.00$0.280
Output multiple8.0x2.0x
1K prompt + 3K reply$0.0063$0.0010

SAME JOB, BOTH BILLS

ScenarioGPT-5 MiniDeepSeek V4 FlashGap
A typical prompt$0.0019$0.00036.4x
A 20-turn conversation$0.0090$0.00175.4x
Summarizing a 10-page document$0.0084$0.00204.2x
One agent run$0.02$0.00366.7x
A code review request$0.0079$0.00136.3x

Output sizes use the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator. Estimates, not invoices — and price is not a benchmark: the cheaper model is only a bargain if it does the job.

SETTLE IT WITH YOUR OWN PROMPT

Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on GPT-5 Mini, DeepSeek V4 Flash and the other 15 models on the board — plus how much of it is waste either way.