DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Comes Close to GPT-6 Astra in OpenDesign Test at Much Lower Cost

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash nearly matched GPT-6 Astra in a design evaluation conducted by OpenDesign, according to Decrypt. The test placed 13 artificial-intelligence models through the same set of design tasks. DeepSeek’s model finished about 1.5 points behind GPT-6 Astra, while its cost was roughly 70 times lower. That pricing places DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at approximately 1.4% of the cost of GPT-6 Astra, highlighting a wide gap between the two systems’ expense despite their relatively close performance in the evaluation. The result offers a snapshot of how lower-cost AI models are competing on design-related tasks, though the supplied information does not include further details about the test methodology or the models’ individual scores.