Model board / DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

Verified 2026-10-22 against the pages listed below. Prices are USD per 1M tokens, list rate — no committed-use, enterprise or volume discount.

peak rate. Off-peak is half — $0.15/$0.003/$0.60 — every hour outside 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays. Since 2026-10-17 deepseek-flash is served by the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 checkpoint with no calling change; the legacy names deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp are retired and answer from 1017 at this price. The price table itself renders client-side and was not re-read server-side this pass — three secondary reports agree it is unchanged, and Together lists 1017 at $0.30/$0.006/$1.20

on by default and best-effort; a cache hit is $0.006 against a $0.30 miss at peak (2%), the cheapest cache read on this board. FIM completion is in beta and works in non-thinking mode only

Licence: MIT — stated on the Hugging Face model card

Watch out

Released 2026-09-10. V4-Flash is retired and routes here; V4-Pro does not — DeepSeek kept serving it at its own rate after walking back the 2026-09-14 cutover. Pin deepseek-flash rather than a legacy flash name. DeepSeek says V4.1-Flash outperforms V4-Pro; that is their claim, not a result on this board

What we would use it for

A 1M window with vision, tools and fill-in-the-middle at $0.30/$1.20, and the cheapest cache read on the board

What this has cost, week by week

Output price at each refresh since 2026-09-10. A vendor change is the provider changing its price. Our correction means this board changed what it prints and the provider's charge did not move — the two are never merged, because publishing the second as the first would be a price rise that never happened.

Nothing has moved since we started tracking it.

Where these numbers came from

• https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
• https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260910
• https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
• https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/kv_cache/
• https://www.together.ai/pricing

No number on this page was written that was not read from one of those pages on 2026-10-22. If one is wrong, send us the source URL and it is corrected in the next weekly refresh, with a changelog line saying what was wrong — contact@naderu.com.

Jobs this is one of our picks for

• Summarisation — Long documents in, short faithful text out (summarization)
• Extraction — Classify or pull fields out of a corpus (extraction)
• Code completion — Fill-in-the-middle and next lines, at keystroke latency (code-completion)
• Code review — Read a diff or a repository and say what is wrong (code-review)

The rest of the board

This row sits alongside 76 others on the model board, refreshed every week. The same data as JSON, and the terms for using it, are at /board-data.