Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) vs GPT-4o mini: API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), GPT-4o mini is 94.1% cheaper ($78.19/mo vs $1323.75/mo), while DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) leads in token generation speed (150 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) (Fireworks AI) GPT-4o mini (OpenAI) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $3.000 $0.150 GPT-4o mini
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $1.500 $0.075 GPT-4o mini
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $8.00 $0.60 GPT-4o mini
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1315 LMSYS Elo 1224 LMSYS Elo DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $1323.75 / mo $78.19 / mo GPT-4o mini (-94.1%)
Context Window 160,000 tokens 128,000 tokens DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Output Speed (Throughput) 150 tokens/sec 140 tokens/sec DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Batch API Discount -50% (Fireworks AI) -50% (OpenAI) Fireworks AI
Primary Workload Fit US/EU compliance enterprises needing DeepSeek R1 reasoning at 3x speed High-volume classification, extraction, RAG summarization, low-cost chatbots Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) → Try GPT-4o mini → Open Full Simulator