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DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B vs OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Search Preview

Side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B and OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Search Preview. Compare pricing, context window, capabilities, and find out which is better for your workflow.

Verdict

strong confidence

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads overall

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads in price and capabilities and max output, making it the stronger choice for most workflows. OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Search Preview remains competitive with advantages in context window.

Best for with DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B

Budget-conscious workflowsMulti-modal tasksLong-form content generation

Best for with OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Search Preview

Long document processing

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Technical specifications

	DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B	OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Search Preview
Provider	DeepSeek	OpenAI
Input price	$0.29/M	$0.15/M
Output price	$0.29/M	$0.60/M
Context window	33K	128K
Max output	33K	16K
Capabilities	Reasoning
Released	Jan 29, 2025	Mar 12, 2025

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How each dimension compares

Price

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B

$0.29/M tokens