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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)

deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:batch

Model weights

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 Exp.

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 Pro on performance, speed, and task completion time.

Modalities
In / out price
30% off
$0.112 / $0.336per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Sep 10, 2026

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Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

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Uptime

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Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) (Artificial Analysis and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Non-reasoning) HLE10.8%
Artificial AnalysisDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR55.3%
Artificial AnalysisDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Non-reasoning) GDPval-AA42.4%
Artificial AnalysisDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Non-reasoning) CritPt0.3%
Artificial AnalysisDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Non-reasoning) SciCode35.5%
Artificial AnalysisDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench 4.05.6%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Access to Justice Benchmark72.9%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash BioMysteryBench67.8%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Code Migration v1.158.9%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash CyberBench v1.173.7%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash EMB v1.167.8%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Finance Agent v2.165.4%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Vals Finance Index57.1%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Financial Coaching Bench72.8%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v16.7%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Immigration65.6%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Vals Inference Provider Index66.6%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash IOI40.3%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash LegalBench83.3%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Legal Research Bench41.3%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash MedCode41.2%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash MedScribe85.5%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash MysteryMechanism21.2%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash ProgramBench0.5%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash ProofBench v1.154.0%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Public Benefits Bench v1.164.3%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash SAGE85.4%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Vals Science Index29.6%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash SkillsBench69.8%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash SRE Bench0.8%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash SWE-bench Multimodal46.5%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Tax Agent Bench26.6%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Terminal-Bench 4.019.7%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Terminal-Bench-Science0.0%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Vals Index51.3%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Vibe Code Bench 1-10016.4%
Vals AIDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Vibe Code Bench v1.184.7%

Apps

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API

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DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash versions

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Documentation

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