DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
· verified October 3, 2026
public paid api open-weights reasoning vision long-context value local
Provider
Statuspublic
AA Intelligence Index39.5 (official, read October 3, 2026)
Released2026-09-10
Context window1.05M
ModalitiesText + image
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.3 / $1.2 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.3/$1.2 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed September 10, 2026
In one line
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by DeepSeek, measured by Artificial Analysis at 39.5 on the Intelligence Index. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 3, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “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.”
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