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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek's September 2026 Flash model on a new architecture, adding native image understanding and a 1M-token context at lower API prices.

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Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .

Overall rank
#17
Tier
S
Score
85.7
Main category
Coding

Strengths

  • Replaces V4 Flash and V4 Flash Vision; DeepSeek reports large gains on agentic coding benchmarks
  • Up to 1M-token context and 384K output tokens with native image input
  • Open weights on Hugging Face under the MIT license

Considerations

  • Peak-hour API rates are double the off-peak rates
  • Image input resolution is capped at roughly 1344 x 1344 pixels

Price

API $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens at peak ($0.15 / $0.60 off-peak); MIT open weights

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Score breakdown

Performance
87.0
55% of score
Reputation
80.0
35% of score
Recency
98.0
10% of score

The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →

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