DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
deepseekDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the deepseek-flash API model name. 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.
- Context
- 1.0M
- Max output
- 393.2K
- Released
- 2026-10-17
- Input
- $0.15/M
- Output
- $0.6/M
- Cache read
- $0.003/M
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
deepseekDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is an experimental vision-enabled version of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 from DeepSeek, adding image understanding while matching the base model on text capabilities including agents, reasoning, and world knowledge. It is a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 13B active parameters out of 284B total. It is suited for document and chart understanding, visual question answering, and multimodal agent workflows that interleave text and images.
- Context
- 1.0M
- Max output
- 262.1K
- Released
- 2026-08-21
- Input
- $0.216/M
- Output
- $0.647/M
- Cache read
- $0.0069/M
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
deepseekDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, with 13B active parameters out of 284B total. This re-post-trained revision is suited for coding, reasoning, and agent workflows. This is the GA release of DeepSeek V4 Flash.
- Context
- 1.0M
- Max output
- 943.7K
- Released
- 2026-07-31
- Input
- $0.119/M
- Output
- $0.238/M
- Cache read
- $0.024/M