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DeepSeek ·Open weights ·Released September 2026·Tracked since 10 Sep 2026

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
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Speed
#64 of 356
110.8
Output tokens per second
Price
#194 of 504
$0.53
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.30 · Out $1.20
Cache hit price
#37 of 384
$0.006
per 1M tokens (−98%)
Context
#110 of 550
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash does not yet carry a Known Good Index score — the index needs at least one science, one mathematics and one coding result. It accepts text, image input, outputs text, and supports a 1.05M-token context window.

Pricing is $0.30 per 1M input tokens (below the $1.96 average) and $1.20 per 1M output (below the $9.07 average). Cached input reads at $0.006 per 1M, a 98% discount on its input price. At 111 tokens per second it sits in the fastest quarter of the models we track.

Generated from tracked data on 8 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

Technical specifications
ReasoningYes
Input modalitytext, image
Output modalitytext
Context window1,048,576 tokens
Max output943,718 tokens
WeightsOpen weights
Knowledge cutoffMay 2025
Tool callingYes
Providers33 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash sits
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Quality

How DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCodingMathematicsReasoning
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, Mock AIME 2024–25, MATH Level 5, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from their publishers; we do not run these evaluations. This model is not in this ranking: it holds no Known Good Index score.

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Quality Breakdown

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · grey marker = average across tracked models

None of the seven index evaluations have published a score for this model yet.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena Elo

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash does not currently appear in any arena we ingest.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better. Ranked against the 504 models priced above zero, which is the population the chart draws; excludes 39 published at no cost (free and promotional tiers).

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed

Mean output throughput across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Mean output tokens per second across all tracked providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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Latency

Time to first token, mean across providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, mean across tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, with their own price and speed

33 providers
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
Together $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 263 0.3s 1.05M
BaseTen $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 255 0.4s 1.05M
Fireworks $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 242 0.3s 1.05M
DigitalOcean $0.23 $0.90 $0.39 220 0.8s 1.05M
Modal $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 212 0.6s 1.05M
Makora $0.27 $1.15 $0.49 169 0.6s 1.05M
DeepSeek · first party $0.15 $0.60 $0.26 157 1.0s 1.05M
Parasail $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 156 1.0s 1.05M
Crusoe $0.29 $1.20 $0.52 152 0.3s 1.05M
CoreWeave $0.20 $0.65 $0.31 146 0.5s 1.05M
InferenceNet $0.10 $0.60 $0.23 132 0.7s 1.04M
Baidu · first party $0.04 $0.14 $0.06 126 1.1s 1.05M
Venice $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 122 0.8s 1.00M
Novita $0.20 $0.78 $0.34 112 1.4s 1.05M
AtlasCloud $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 110 1.2s 1.05M
Relace $0.02 $1.20 $0.31 104 1.0s 1.05M
Krea $0.23 $0.90 $0.39 99 1.9s 1.05M
DekaLLM $0.12 $1.20 $0.39 91 1.5s 1.05M
GMICloud $0.18 $0.72 $0.32 90 2.5s 1.05M
Phala $0.21 $0.84 $0.37 87 1.1s 1.05M
Morph $0.02 $0.60 $0.17 82 0.6s 1.05M
Wafer $0.04 $0.40 $0.13 82 0.5s 1.05M
Io Net $0.11 $0.41 $0.18 80 1.4s 1.05M
StreamLake $0.15 $0.60 $0.26 75 1.5s 1.02M
Ionstream $0.05 $1.15 $0.33 74 1.2s 1.05M
SiliconFlow $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 73 2.8s 1.05M
DeepInfra $0.14 $0.42 $0.21 62 1.0s 1.05M
Decart $0.09 $0.18 $0.11 55 0.9s 1.05M
NextBit $0.21 $0.84 $0.37 53 2.4s 1.05M
Reka · first party $0.10 $0.84 $0.29 46 0.6s 1.05M
Sail Research $0.08 $0.40 $0.16 43 1.4s 1.05M
Alibaba · first party $0.15 $0.60 $0.26 31 7.0s 1.00M
OpenInference $0.20 $1.00 $0.40 27 3.9s 1.05M

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 10 Sep 2026

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Blended price $0.53 per 1M · observed 8 Oct 2026
Output speed 111 tok/s · observed 8 Oct 2026
Time to first token 1.4s
8 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 94%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.27 to $0.52 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
8 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 48%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.52 to $0.27 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
8 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 90%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.28 to $0.52 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
8 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 47%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.52 to $0.28 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
7 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 180%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.19 to $0.52 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
7 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 44%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.34 to $0.19 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
7 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 36%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.52 to $0.34 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
7 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 386%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.11 to $0.52 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
7 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 79%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.52 to $0.11 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 65%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.32 to $0.52 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 6%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.34 to $0.32 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 12%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.37 to $0.33 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 5%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.34 to $0.36 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 6%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.36 to $0.34 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 8%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.37 to $0.34 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 10%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.33 to $0.37 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 45%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.60 to $0.33 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
6 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 15%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.52 to $0.60 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
5 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 13%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.60 to $0.52 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
4 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 15%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.52 to $0.60 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 218%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.16 to $0.52 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 18%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.14 to $0.16 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 17%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.12 to $0.14 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 77%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.52 to $0.12 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 69%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.31 to $0.52 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 57%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.20 to $0.31 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price down 5%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.21 to $0.20 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 13%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.18 to $0.20 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
2 Oct 2026 · price change
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash price up 20%
Blended 3:1 price moved from $0.15 to $0.18 per 1M tokens (OpenRouter).
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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

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