Side-by-side technical and economic comparison between DeepSeek's DeepSeek-V4.1-Reasoner and xAI's Grok 4.6 Mini.
| Metric | DeepSeek-V4.1-Reasoner | Grok 4.6 Mini | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider Organization | DeepSeek | xAI | — |
| Standard Input / 1M | $0.50 | $0.40 | Grok 4.6 Mini (20% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | $0.01 | $0.10 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Reasoner lower |
| Output / 1M | $2.50 | $1.60 | Grok 4.6 Mini lower |
| Context Window | 256k | 512k | Grok 4.6 Mini (512k) |
| Max Generation Tokens | 384k | 64k | DeepSeek-V4.1-Reasoner |
| Tokenizer Family | DeepSeek Byte-Level BPE (102k vocabulary) | OpenAI o200k_base legacy (200k vocabulary) | — |
Opt for DeepSeek-V4.1-Reasoner when your engineering requirements prioritize DeepSeek's ecosystem, specific tokenizer efficiencies (Calibrated DeepSeek Tokenizer (±3%)), or when your expected prompt-to-completion ratios favor its $0.5/M input rate.
Opt for Grok 4.6 Mini when looking for xAI's tooling integration, specific context window depth (512k tokens), or when output generation volume favors its $1.6/M rate.