DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs GPT-5.3-Codex

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
304.2 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
4.3 M
mit · commercial OK
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$1.75
Output / 1M
$14.00
AA index
32.5
proprietary · 400K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 GPT-5.3-Codex
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 304.2 B n/a — API-only
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM n/a — API-only
Context length 1,048,576 400,000
Licence mit Proprietary
Commercial use Allowed Per API terms
Languages — n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 4,348,313 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 11.9 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.044 $1.75
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $14.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.18 $15.75
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.0014 $0.18
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 32.5
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 128,000
API providers 22 2
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.18
GPT-5.3-Codex $15.75

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 88.6× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 6,024.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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