# DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-5.6 Sol

As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads GPT-5.6 Sol in 1 of 8 shared categories: Coding › Web dev.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: $0.23463 per 1M blended tokens.

GPT-5.6 Sol: $8.000000000000002 per 1M blended tokens.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: open weights.

GPT-5.6 Sol: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in General LLM at #17 against #32.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Reasoning at #12 against #29.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Science at #13 against #36.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads GPT-5.6 Sol in Coding › Web dev at #21 against #23.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Long context at #13 against #37.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Vision at #3 against #21.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Factuality at #15 against #25.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Abstraction (ARC) at #3 against #8.

As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is state of the art on best per dollar in General LLM (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol is near state of the art, rank #3 in Vision (since Oct 15, 2026; sources GDP.pdf; methodology v1.0).