
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on output from a 552B-parameter backbone, an asymmetric split that keeps per-token compute low relative to the model's total size. Image understanding is native to the architecture, with visual and text embeddings trained jointly from the start of pre-training rather than added afterward as in the earlier experimental V4 Flash Vision ExpOpens in new tab.
It is suited for coding, terminal, and computer-use agents, along with long-horizon tasks that must run to completion across many steps and long-context analysis. Compressed KV caching cuts cache memory to roughly a quarter of the previous Flash generation, significantly reducing costs on agentic workloads. DeepSeek positions it as the cost-efficient tier of the V4.1 family and reports that it exceeds V4 ProOpens in new tab on performance, speed, and task completion time.
| $0.0001 | $0.60 | $0.005 | 0.85s | 73 tps | ||
| $0.029 | $1.00 | $0.009 | 0.77s | 90 tps | ||
| $0.05 | $1.60 | $0.049 | 0.80s | 143 tps | ||
| $0.07 | $0.60 | $0.01 | 0.63s | 129 tps | ||
| $0.08 | $0.40 | $0.01 | 1.35s | 42 tps | ||
| $0.09 | $0.18 | $0.018 | 0.67s | 68 tps | ||
| $0.10 | $1.10 | $0.01 | 1.01s | 94 tps | ||
| $0.12 | $1.20 | $0.005 | 1.38s | 94 tps | ||
| $0.20$0.14 | $0.60$0.42 | $0.006$0.0042 | 1.09s | 51 tps | ||
51% off | $0.30$0.147 | $1.20$0.588 | $0.006$0.00294 | 1.52s | 108 tps | |
50% off | $0.30$0.1497 | $1.20$0.5988 | $0.006$0.002994 | 1.15s | 190 tps | |
| $0.30$0.15 | $1.20$0.60 | $0.03$0.015 | 0.63s | 118 tps | ||
| $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.003 | 0.91s | 134 tps | ||
| $0.165 | $0.66 | $0.006 | 0.73s | 186 tps | ||
40% off | $0.30$0.18 | $1.20$0.72 | $0.006$0.0036 | 2.44s | 107 tps | |
35% off | $0.30$0.195 | $1.20$0.78 | $0.006$0.0039 | 1.35s | 98 tps | |
| $0.20 | $0.65 | $0.03 | 0.82s | 211 tps | ||
30% off | $0.30$0.21 | $1.20$0.84 | $0.006$0.0042 | 1.48s | 68 tps | |
| $0.27 | $1.15 | $0.009 | 0.68s | 168 tps | ||
| $0.29 | $1.20 | $0.007 | 0.66s | 133 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | 1.34s | 150 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.007 | 0.32s | 205 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 0.31s | 217 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 1.96s | 98 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | 0.53s | 180 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.007 | 0.60s | 219 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 0.90s | 177 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.0075 | 0.70s | 190 tps | ||
| $0.60 | $2.40 | $0.014 | 0.40s | 297 tps | ||
| $0.00011 | $0.36 | $0.00011 | 2.70s | 21 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 6.60s | 52 tps | ||
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| $0.45 | $1.80 | $0.009 | 0.46s | 280 tps | ||
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