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V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek · released Sep 10, 2026

Open weightsReasoningTool useStructured outputVision

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...

Specification

Context window
1.05M
Max output
944K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
763.2B
Licence
mit
Serving providers
30
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

39.5

90th percentile

Coding

—

Coding Index

Agentic

—

Agentic Index

Output speed

296 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

306ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.07

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • AA-LCR (long context)
    84.0%
  • SciCode
    51.9%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    39.2%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
AA-LCR (long context)84.0%
SciCode51.9%
Humanity's Last Exam39.2%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Claude Opus 4.740.7
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B39.9
Muse Spark 1.239.6
V4.1 Flash39.5
Gemini 3.7 Flash39.1
GPT-5.439.0
Grok 4.538.8
GPT-5.538.4

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence90th
Arena Elo93th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.014
Output / 1M tokens
$0.891
Cached input / 1M
$0.005
Blended 3:1
$0.233

One task, estimated

$0.07

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Arena

Head-to-head generation quality

Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.

Overall Elo
1,357
Win rate
58.2%
Strongest at
3D scenes
Tournaments
5,283

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,225–1,375 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero

Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.

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CategoryEloWin rate
3D scenes135758.2%
Game development133354.5%
UI components131852.8%
Websites131150.7%
Data visualisation129350.4%
SVG124349.0%