DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning)

by DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) is a reasoning model from DeepSeek, released on September 10, 2026. It has a 1M-token context window and can generate up to 393K output tokens. API pricing is $0.22 per 1M input tokens and $0.66 per 1M output tokens. It ranks #14 of 220 models by Intelligence Score with a score of 50.7.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is an MIT-licensed multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model accepting images and text and generating text. It has 552B backbone parameters, 196B Engram conditional-memory parameters, and approximately 763B parameters in the released checkpoint. Its causal encoder-decoder architecture activates 8B parameters per token during prefill and 16B during decode. Trained on 45T multimodal tokens, it supports a 1M-token context, up to 384K output tokens on the DeepSeek API, and continuously adjustable reasoning effort from 1 to 100. CSA2 attention and FP4 KV caching reduce global KV cache storage to 890 bytes per token. The API model name is deepseek-flash. Catalog prices are peak rates per million tokens: $0.30 input, $0.006 cached input, and $1.20 output. Off-peak rates are $0.15, $0.003, and $0.60 respectively, effective September 10, 2026 at 04:00 UTC. Peak hours are 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC on weekdays; all other times are off-peak (the launch pricing announcement also lists public holidays as off-peak).

Key specs

ProviderDeepSeek
Release date2026-09-10
Licenseopen source
Context window1M tokens
Max output393K tokens
Input price$0.22 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.66 / 1M tokens
Intelligence Score50.7
Coding index41.9

Quick answers

What is the context window of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) has a context window of 1M tokens, with a maximum output of 393K tokens per response.

How much does DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) cost?

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) costs $0.22 per 1M input tokens and $0.66 per 1M output tokens through the API.

Is DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) open source?

Yes. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) is an open model released under the open source license.

When was DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) released?

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) on September 10, 2026.

How does DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) compare to Claude Opus 5.5 (Reasoning)?

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Reasoning) scores 50.7 on the Intelligence Score versus 60.5 for Claude Opus 5.5 (Reasoning), the current #1. Input pricing is $0.22 vs $4 per 1M tokens.

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