DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a DeepSeek open-weights reasoning model, released 10 Sept 2026. Its best configuration (max reasoning effort) ranks #98 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 61.2 ±3.7, in the upper half. The ± is the point: 192 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in composite (74) and lowest in knowledge (55). At $0.525 per million tokens blended it is mid-priced. Output speed of 181 tokens per second puts it in the fastest quarter, with a first answer in 12.0 s. It has been superseded by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, which is the version to compare against today. It has been measured at 5 reasoning-effort settings; this summary describes the best-scoring one, and the tabs above switch between them. Last measured 23 Oct 2026.
- Blended price
- $0.525/M
- $0.300 in · $1.20 out
- Output speed
- 181 tok/s
- measured by Artificial Analysis
- First answer
- 12 s
- first token 0.62 s
- Context
- 1.0M
- Full answer
- 15 s
- median, reasoning included
- Cost per run
- $0.480
- one full Intelligence Index run
- Released
- 10 Sept 2026
- Overall index61
- Reasoning62
- Coding59
- Agents & tools57
- Maths61
- Knowledge55
- Human preference67
- Multimodal61
- Long context67
- Composite74
Versions
DeepSeek has shipped 2 models under this name. Each is ranked on its own results; a newer version often has fewer results so far, which holds its index nearer the average until more arrive.
| Model | Released | Index | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017max | 17 Oct 2026 | 64.0 | #58 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flashmaxthis page | 10 Sept 2026 | 61.2 | #98 |
Reasoning-effort configurations
The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Not stated” collects results from publishers that did not say which setting they used; for a reasoning model that is usually its thinking mode, but we do not assume it. Pick a setting here or at the top of the page to see its price, speed and category scores.
| Effort | Index | Rank | Speed | First answer | Chat reply cost | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| no reasoning | 48.0 | #441 | 295 tok/s | 0.89 s | $0.0005 | Coding 34 · Composite 57 · Knowledge 57 · Long context 52 · Multimodal 48 · Reasoning 36 |
| low | – | – | 121 tok/s | 0.62 s | $0.0002 | Reasoning 56 |
| high | 55.6 | #226 | 121 tok/s | 0.62 s | $0.0002 | Agents & tools 61 · Coding 57 · Knowledge 58 · Reasoning 57 |
| maxbest | 61.2 | #98 | 181 tok/s | 12 s | $0.0005 | Agents & tools 57 · Coding 59 · Composite 74 · Human preference 67 · Knowledge 55 · Long context 67 · Maths 61 · Multimodal 61 · Reasoning 62 |
| not stated | – | – | 121 tok/s | 0.62 s | $0.0002 | Agents & tools 39 · Composite 62 · Maths 56 |
How its index has moved
19 Sept 2026 to 23 Oct 2026- max
- high
- no reasoning
The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.
Benchmark results
See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.
Metadata
| Benchmark | max | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Openness Indexnot in index | 44.4#28 | Artificial Analysis |
Reasoning
| Benchmark | no reasoning | low | high | max | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | – | – | – | 89.8%#50 | – | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| Arena Hard Prompts | – | – | – | 1499#36 | – | Arena (LMArena) | |
| LiveBench 2.0 Reasoningnot in indexeffort not stated | – | – | – | – | 86.7%#27 | LiveBench | |
| LiveBench 1.0 Reasoningnot in index | – | – | – | 86.7%#31 | – | LiveBench | |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index | 10.8%#311 | – | – | 39.3%#92 | – | Artificial Analysis | |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 7.8%#237 | 90.5%#74 | 88.5%#88 | 94.5%#39 | – | ARC Prize | |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3%#218 | 60.6%#85 | 67.5%#65 | 72.9%#53 | – | ARC Prize | |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.5%#46 | 3.3%#31 | 3.2%#32 | 2.7%#34 | – | ARC Prize | |
| CritPt | 0.3%#271 | – | – | 14.3%#98 | – | Artificial Analysis | |
| MysteryMechanismnot in index | – | – | 21.2%#22 | – | – | Vals AI | |
| Chess Puzzlesnot in index | – | – | – | 48.0%#19 | – | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| Mystery Game Puzzlesnot in index | – | – | – | 43.0%#16 | – | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| LMCAnot in indexeffort not stated | – | – | – | – | 47.0%#82 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| DTBenchnot in indexeffort not stated | – | – | – | – | 89.9%#88 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub |
Coding
Agents & tools
Maths
| Benchmark | max | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | 67.4%#33 | – | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 26.8%#43 | – | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.3%#24 | – | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| ProofBencheffort not stated | – | 54.0%#27 | Vals AI | |
| LiveBench Mathematicsnot in index | 93.3%#23 | – | LiveBench | |
| Arena Maths | 1495#24 | – | Arena (LMArena) |
Knowledge
| Benchmark | no reasoning | high | max | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | – | – | 42.9%#42 | – | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| LiveBench 2.0 Data Analysisnot in indexeffort not stated | – | – | – | 79.3%#14 | LiveBench | |
| LiveBench Researchnot in indexeffort not stated | – | – | – | 86.8%#4 | LiveBench | |
| LiveBench 1.0 Data Analysisnot in index | – | – | 79.3%#17 | – | LiveBench | |
| AA-Omniscience | -10.2#192 | – | -5.3#165 | – | Artificial Analysis | |
| LegalBench | – | 83.3%#55 | – | – | Vals AI | |
| BioMysteryBenchnot in index | – | 67.8%#15 | – | – | Vals AI | |
| Excel Modeling Benchmarknot in index | – | 57.2%#40 | – | – | Vals AI | |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1not in index | – | – | 67.8%#21 | – | Vals AI | |
| MedCodenot in index | – | 41.2%#55 | – | – | Vals AI | |
| MedScribenot in index | – | 85.5%#27 | – | – | Vals AI | |
| Public Benefits Bench v1.1not in index | – | – | 64.3%#22 | – | Vals AI | |
| GDP.pdfnot in index | – | – | 19.8%#31 | – | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index | 28.4%#196 | – | 46.4%#81 | – | Artificial Analysis | |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index | 46.0%#139 | – | 3.5%#542 | – | Artificial Analysis |
Instruction following
| Benchmark | max | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Languagenot in index | 81.2%#28 | LiveBench | |
| LiveBench Instruction Followingnot in index | 70.0%#30 | LiveBench | |
| Arena Instruction Followingnot in index | 1477#25 | Arena (LMArena) |
Human preference
| Benchmark | max | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Text | 1476#33 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Creative Writingnot in index | 1442#57 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Multi-turnnot in index | 1468#64 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Longer Queriesnot in index | 1481#45 | Arena (LMArena) |
Multimodal
| Benchmark | no reasoning | high | max | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Vision | – | – | 1278#38 | – | Arena (LMArena) | |
| LiveBench Designnot in indexeffort not stated | – | – | – | 79.2%#15 | LiveBench | |
| MMMU-Pro | 65.6%#173 | – | 77.0%#85 | – | Artificial Analysis | |
| SAGEnot in index | – | 47.9%#29 | – | – | Vals AI |
Long context
| Benchmark | no reasoning | max | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA-LCR | 55.3%#298 | 84.0%#12 | Artificial Analysis | |
| MLCRnot in index | – | 23.9%#32 | Artificial Analysis |
Composite
| Benchmark | no reasoning | high | max | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Indexnot in indexeffort not stated | – | – | – | 155.9#32 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| LiveBench 2.0effort not stated | – | – | – | 78.0%#12 | LiveBench | |
| LiveBench 1.0not in index | – | – | 81.1%#9 | – | LiveBench | |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 24.7#173 | – | 39.5#69 | – | Artificial Analysis | |
| Vals Finance Indexnot in index | – | – | 57.1%#15 | – | Vals AI | |
| Vals Science Indexnot in index | – | 29.6%#17 | – | – | Vals AI | |
| AA Cyber Indexnot in index | – | – | 40.8#10 | – | Artificial Analysis |
Where it wins
Benchmarks where this configuration ranks in the top five of every configuration measured.
Where to run it
Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.
| Provider | Speed | First token | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Quantisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseten | 316 tok/s | 0.28 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | – |
| Baseten | 289 tok/s | 0.15 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | – |
| Venice | 272 tok/s | 0.38 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1M | fp8 |
| Together | 267 tok/s | 0.17 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | – |
| Fireworks Spot | 238 tok/s | 0.43 s | $0.210 | $0.840 | 1.0M | – |
| Baseten | 231 tok/s | 0.28 s | $0.600 | $2.40 | 1.0M | – |
| Cohere | 215 tok/s | 0.33 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | – |
| Fireworks | 212 tok/s | 0.56 s | $0.450 | $1.80 | 1.0M | – |
| DigitalOcean | 211 tok/s | 0.68 s | $0.165 | $0.660 | 1.0M | – |
| Wafer | 193 tok/s | 0.38 s | $0.220 | $0.650 | 1.0M | mxfp4 |
| Morph | 191 tok/s | 0.46 s | $0.411 | $0.600 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| Parasail | 167 tok/s | 0.53 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| Nebius Token Factory | 163 tok/s | 0.67 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| Relace | 160 tok/s | 0.41 s | $0.070 | $0.500 | 1.0M | – |
| CoreWeave | 148 tok/s | 0.76 s | $0.150 | $0.650 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| ModelRun [by Modular] | 148 tok/s | 0.36 s | $0.170 | $0.670 | 1.0M | fp4 |
| Prime Intellect | 139 tok/s | 0.58 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | – |
| Crusoe | 138 tok/s | 0.38 s | $0.290 | $1.20 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| inference.net | 129 tok/s | 0.37 s | $0.103 | $0.715 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| inference.net | 121 tok/s | 0.35 s | $0.103 | $0.715 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| Baidu Qianfan | 109 tok/s | 0.75 s | $0.054 | $0.215 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| Reka AI | 108 tok/s | 0.38 s | $0.105 | $0.840 | 1.0M | – |
| Makora | 108 tok/s | 0.41 s | $0.260 | $1.17 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| Decart | 101 tok/s | 0.61 s | $0.090 | $0.180 | 1.0M | fp4 |
| Open Inference | 97 tok/s | 0.64 s | $0.020 | $1.00 | 1.0M | fp4 |
| Google Vertex | 97 tok/s | 0.48 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | – |
| Phala | 96 tok/s | 1.84 s | $0.210 | $0.840 | 1.0M | – |
| AtlasCloud | 94 tok/s | 0.81 s | $0.135 | $0.540 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| GMICloud | 84 tok/s | 1.95 s | $0.180 | $0.720 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| Modal | 78 tok/s | 0.34 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | – |
| Fireworks | 76 tok/s | 0.72 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | – |
| SiliconFlow | 75 tok/s | 1.94 s | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| NovitaAI | 73 tok/s | 1.47 s | $0.195 | $0.780 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| DeepInfra | 72 tok/s | 0.71 s | $0.140 | $0.420 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| StreamLake | 63 tok/s | 1.49 s | $0.147 | $0.588 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| Alibaba Cloud Int. | 48 tok/s | 1.37 s | $0.330 | $1.32 | 1M | – |
| Mancer | 47 tok/s | 0.76 s | $0.200 | $1.00 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| DeepInfra | 40 tok/s | 1.13 s | $0.210 | $0.630 | 1.0M | fp8 |
| DeepInfra | 25 tok/s | 4.60 s | $0.112 | $0.336 | 1.0M | fp8 |
Price history
The price above, per 1M tokens, every day it changed.
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.003 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0005 | $0.0004 | 13.6 s |
| Summarize a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.0043 | $0.0016 | 15.3 s |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.0036 | $0.0023 | 20.3 s |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.023 | $0.0094 | 34.1 s |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0008 | $0.0004 | 13.1 s |
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Questions people ask
- What are DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's benchmark scores?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max effort) scores 61.2 ±3.7 on the BenchLeader Index, top 100, strongest in composite (74) and weakest in knowledge (55). That rests on 25 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
- How does DeepSeek V4.1 Flash rank?
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max effort) is #98 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026 (top 100). 192 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
- How much does DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cost per 1M tokens?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, $0.525 blended (three input tokens per output token). The list price last changed on 6 Oct 2026.
- When was DeepSeek V4.1 Flash released?
- DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 10 Sept 2026. BenchLeader has results for it at 5 reasoning-effort settings.
Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare these configurations.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash.