DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash- DeepSeek
- Family · DeepSeek V4 Flash
- Released 10 Sep 2026
- Text · Image → Text
- Reasoning · adjustable
- Tools · JSON · Vision
Spec & list price
Context1M
Max output944K
Input / 1M$0.04
Output / 1M$0.5011.1× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence39.5#38/489
Usage
Tokens / day2.1T▼ 20% 7d
Usage rank#2
Requests / day49.9M
Tool calls / req0.37
Per request · 30 days
Avg input43.6K2.9× median
Avg output8811.3× median
Cache hit91%1.3× median
Reasoning share67%1.2× median
Tool-call failures0.9%0.5× median
Consumption
Peak 7.5T 7 OctLow 1.6T 1 NovRank today #2
News & trends
185 mentions this week ▲ 285%this model · videos, posts, articles · 30 days
Trending · 14 days
- Tell HN: Mistrap Pro includes DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 10171 points
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash needs less than 1GB RAM for 1M context1.6K upvotes
- DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression5 points
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ÜCRETSİZ ve Limitsiz! (5 Farklı Yol)35.3K views
- @cursor_ai on X362.4K views
- Running DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on local hardware62.0K views
- Abliterated DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a game changer for cybersecurity work580 upvotes
- @deepseek_ai on X6.9M views
News
- llama.cpp v0.8.0llama.cpp · 28 Oct
- vllm v0.31.0vLLM · 5 Oct
- sglang v0.5.21SGLang · 2 Oct
- vllm v0.30.0vLLM · 22 Sep
Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across 37 providers, latest day
Output speed#34/334134 tok/s2.0× faster than median
Fastest provider278 tok/sbest of 37 providers
First token#830.6 s1.7× quicker than median
#3 cheapest of 18 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Family progress
Intelligence Index
- Family releases45.1
Technical details
- Reasoning
- on · high
- Tokenizer
- DeepSeek
- License
- MIT
- Moderation
- none
- Downloads · likes
- 2.1M · 4.8K
Reasoning effort
- max
- high · default
- low
- none
Request parameters 22
- tools
- tool_choice
- parallel_tool_calls
- response_format
- structured_outputs
- reasoning
- reasoning_effort
- include_reasoning
- temperature
- top_p
+12 more
- top_k
- min_p
- max_tokens
- stop
- seed
- frequency_penalty
- logit_bias
- logprobs
- presence_penalty
- repetition_penalty
- top_a
- top_logprobs
Interesting facts
- 7.3× the output room of similar models (943.7K against a 129.5K median).
- The most used of 4 DeepSeek V4 Flash models by tokens last month.
- Released 53 days ago.
When to use
Best for
- Coding assistants with fast, low-cost responses
- Research and summarization over very long documents
- Image understanding in chat apps
- Tool-calling workflows with structured output
Think twice for
- Long autonomous agent runs (weakest suite)
- Image generation
- Audio input
Research papers
- ExploreRepair: Evidence-Specialized Agents for Vulnerability Repair under Information Constraints29 Oct
- Sticky Collusion: Persistence of LLM Agent Collusion after Incentive Removal and Partner Replacement29 Oct
- Security Impact of Coding Agent's Memory Files28 Oct
- Benchmarking LLM Agents for Behaviorally Adequate Test Generation from Software Requirements27 Oct
- DeepInfer-Mac: Running a 750B-Class MoE on a 24 GB Laptop27 Oct
- kw-bench: Breaking Frontier Harnesses on Real-World Tasks26 Oct
- Let the Gate Decide: Per-Lookup Precision for Quantized Conditional Memory in LLMs26 Oct
- NumTrace: Auditing the Number Provenance of Financial Analyst Agents26 Oct
Same family
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Alternatives
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