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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Twice the parameters of the Flash it replaces, and cheaper to run.

currentDeepSeek ↗Verified 2026-10-20

90.6%

Terminal-Bench 2.1

Specifications

Context1Msource · as of 2026-09-13
Input ($/Mtok)$0.3source · as of 2026-09-13 · medium confidence
Output ($/Mtok)$1.2source · as of 2026-09-13 · medium confidence
LicenceMITsource · as of 2026-09-13
Max output256Ksource · as of 2026-09-13
Parameters552B total, 8B / 16B activesource · as of 2026-09-13
Released10 Sep 2026, refreshed 17 Octsource · as of 2026-10-20
Model IDdeepseek-flashsource · as of 2026-09-13

What matters

  • 552B total, 8B active while reading the prompt and 16B while generating, with a 1M token context
  • DeepSeek says it beats V4-Pro; V4-Pro requests route to it from 14 September 2026
  • MIT licence, native image input, and a KV cache about a quarter the size of V4-Flash's
  • Refreshed on 17 October as V4.1-Flash-1017, still MIT, improving on all eleven benchmarks DeepSeek published

Best for cheap agentic coding with images.