
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.
| $0.0182 | $1.32 | $0.0165 | 2.66s | 22 tps | ||
| $0.045 | $0.30 | $0.015 | 0.73s | 72 tps | ||
| $0.053 | $0.57 | $0.01 | 0.78s | 130 tps | ||
| $0.06 | $0.30 | $0.055 | 0.57s | 166 tps | ||
| $0.08 | $0.40 | $0.01 | 0.84s | 44 tps | ||
| $0.09 | $0.18 | $0.018 | 0.85s | 66 tps | ||
| $0.12 | $2.40 | $0.005 | 0.78s | 77 tps | ||
10% off | $0.15$0.135 | $1.20$1.08 | $0.01$0.009 | 0.53s | 47 tps | |
| $0.1386 | $1.175 | $0.0055 | 0.41s | 154 tps | ||
| $0.20$0.14 | $0.60$0.42 | $0.006$0.0042 | 1.12s | 66 tps | ||
53% off | $0.30$0.141 | $1.20$0.564 | $0.006$0.00282 | 1.55s | 85 tps | |
| $0.141 | $0.564 | $0.0141 | 1.16s | 119 tps | ||
| $0.30$0.15 | $1.20$0.60 | $0.03$0.015 | 1.05s | 125 tps | ||
| $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.003 | 0.80s | 150 tps | ||
| $0.18 | $0.72 | $0.0036 | 0.64s | 184 tps | ||
40% off | $0.30$0.18 | $1.20$0.72 | $0.006$0.0036 | 1.83s | 97 tps | |
35% off | $0.30$0.195 | $1.20$0.78 | $0.006$0.0039 | 1.39s | 108 tps | |
| $0.20 | $0.65 | $0.03 | 0.58s | 128 tps | ||
30% off | $0.30$0.21 | $1.20$0.84 | $0.006$0.0042 | 1.73s | 51 tps | |
| $0.27 | $1.15 | $0.009 | 0.44s | 199 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 0.86s | 130 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.007 | 0.37s | 226 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 0.37s | 205 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 2.22s | 110 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.03 | 0.65s | 172 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.007 | 0.38s | 152 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 1.18s | 123 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.0075 | 0.62s | 165 tps | ||
| $0.45 | $1.80 | $0.009 | 1.63s | 117 tps | ||
| $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 6.60s | 43 tps |
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