Compare verified pricing and model limits for developer-assistant API cost across GroqCloud and DeepSeek. The cost example uses a developer assistant backend workload and does not assume equal model quality.
The tracked token rates and limits provide a cost baseline across two API providers. They do not establish equal coding quality, latency, retry rates, or tool behavior.
| Decision factor | GPT-OSS 120B on Groq | deepseek-v4-pro |
|---|---|---|
| API access provider | GroqCloud | DeepSeek |
| Tracked context | 131,072 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Input price | $0.15 per million tokens | $0.435 per million tokens |
| Output price | $0.60 per million tokens | $0.87 per million tokens |
Prices are USD per 1M tokens under each model's verified default profile.
| Field | GPT-OSS 120B on Groq | deepseek-v4-pro |
|---|---|---|
| API access provider | GroqCloud | DeepSeek |
| Model creator | OpenAI | DeepSeek |
| API model ID | openai/gpt-oss-120b | deepseek-v4-pro |
| Input / 1M | $0.15 | $0.435 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.075 | $0.0036 |
| Output / 1M | $0.60 | $0.87 |
| Context window | 131,072 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Maximum output | 65,536 tokens | 384,000 tokens |
| Accepted input | text | text |
5,000 input and 1,500 output tokens per request, 50,000 monthly requests, and 20% cached input.
Cost result: GPT-OSS 120B on Groq is $73.68 lower per month for these assumptions. This is a price comparison, not a model-quality ranking.
The calculation does not compare coding quality and excludes indexing, execution sandboxes, and repository storage.
Latency, reliability, output quality, retries, regional processing, and provider-specific tool charges can change the practical decision.
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