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DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: The Definitive 2026 Comparison

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 reached general availability on July 9, 2026, and DeepSeek’s answer landed on July 31 as V4-Flash-0731. The two sit close enough on coding and reasoning that the argument has moved almost entirely to cost, and there the honest answer depends on which OpenAI tier you actually compare against. Measured against GPT-5.6 Sol at […]