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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Reasoning effort

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 Output speed of 181 tokens per second puts it in the fastest quarter, with a first answer in 12.0 s. It has been superseded by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, which is the version to compare against today.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
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index61
  2. Reasoning62
  3. Coding59
  4. Agents & tools57
  5. Maths61
  6. Knowledge55
  7. Human preference67
  8. Multimodal61
  9. Long context67
  10. 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.

ModelReleasedIndexRank
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017max17 Oct 202664.0#58
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashmaxthis page10 Sept 202661.2#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.

EffortIndexRankSpeedFirst answerChat reply costCategories
no reasoning48.0#441295 tok/s0.89 s$0.0005Coding 34 · Composite 57 · Knowledge 57 · Long context 52 · Multimodal 48 · Reasoning 36
low––121 tok/s0.62 s$0.0002Reasoning 56
high55.6#226121 tok/s0.62 s$0.0002Agents & tools 61 · Coding 57 · Knowledge 58 · Reasoning 57
maxbest61.2#98181 tok/s12 s$0.0005Agents & tools 57 · Coding 59 · Composite 74 · Human preference 67 · Knowledge 55 · Long context 67 · Maths 61 · Multimodal 61 · Reasoning 62
not stated––121 tok/s0.62 s$0.0002Agents & tools 39 · Composite 62 · Maths 56

How its index has moved

19 Sept 2026 to 23 Oct 2026
445566
  • 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

BenchmarkmaxSourceTrend
AA Openness Indexnot in index44.4#28Artificial Analysis

Reasoning

Benchmarkno reasoninglowhighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
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%#27LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0 Reasoningnot in index–––86.7%#31–LiveBench
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index10.8%#311––39.3%#92–Artificial Analysis
ARC-AGI-17.8%#23790.5%#7488.5%#8894.5%#39–ARC Prize
ARC-AGI-21.3%#21860.6%#8567.5%#6572.9%#53–ARC Prize
ARC-AGI-30.5%#463.3%#313.2%#322.7%#34–ARC Prize
CritPt0.3%#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%#82Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
DTBenchnot in indexeffort not stated––––89.9%#88Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub

Coding

Benchmarkno reasoninghighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
SciCode35.5%#190–51.9%#90–SciCode
FrontierCode–43.9%#17––Cognition
Arena Coding––1523#30–Arena (LMArena)
Arena WebDev––1619#25–Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench 2.0 Codingnot in indexeffort not stated–––90.2%#12LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0 Codingnot in index––80.0%#22–LiveBench
SciCode (AA)not in index35.5%#201–51.9%#90–Artificial Analysis
IOI––40.3%#34–Vals AI
Code Migrationnot in index–45.6%#16––Vals AI
Code Migration v1.1not in index––58.9%#9–Vals AI
ProgramBenchnot in index––0.5%#18–Vals AI
SWE-bench Multimodalnot in index––46.5%#6–Vals AI
Vibe Code Bench 1-100not in index–16.4%#17––Vals AI
Vibe Code Bench v1.1not in index–84.7%#18––Vals AI
Surface Evolver Benchnot in index–46.3%#20––Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
ALE-Benchnot in index––1092.3#52–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)not in index5.6%#100–26.8%#49–Artificial Analysis
Startrise Frontendnot in indexeffort not stated–––75.6%#9Startrise
FrontierCode 1.1 (AA)not in index40.8%#31–44.0%#18–Artificial Analysis

Agents & tools

Benchmarkno reasoninghighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
APEX-Agentseffort not stated–––39.5%#43Mercor
Arena Agent––2.3#18–Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench Long Agenticnot in indexeffort not stated–––40.1%#25LiveBench
LiveBench Browsernot in indexeffort not stated–––84.0%#10LiveBench
LiveBench Agentic Codingnot in index––77.3%#1–LiveBench
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)–74.5%#18––Vals AI
ITBench SRE (AA)not in index––46.9%#10–Artificial Analysis
Analyst Agent (AA)not in index––35.0%#29–Artificial Analysis
CyberBenchnot in index–73.7%#10––Vals AI
Finance Agent v2not in index–53.5%#34––Vals AI
Finance Agent v2.1not in index––65.4%#7–Vals AI
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1not in index––6.7%#30–Vals AI
Legal Research Benchnot in index––41.4%#26–Vals AI
SkillsBenchnot in index–69.8%#1––Vals AI
SREBenchnot in index––0.8%#26–Vals AI
Tax Agent Benchnot in index––26.6%#35–Vals AI
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)not in index–19.7%#30––Vals AI
Terminal-Bench Sciencenot in index–0.0%#38––Vals AI
AutomationBenchnot in index47.8%#85–68.9%#7–Artificial Analysis
GDP.pdf (AA)not in index3.8%#173–12.8%#109–Artificial Analysis
Harvey LAB-AA v1.1not in index––1.7%#16–Harvey
AA-Briefcase v1.1not in index––1419#28–Artificial Analysis
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)not in index0.0%#72–9.1%#38–Artificial Analysis
CWE-Bench (AA)––68.3%#2–Artificial Analysis
DeepSec-Bench (AA)––31.2%#4–Artificial Analysis
CyberGym end-to-end (AA)––22.9%#13–Artificial Analysis

Knowledge

Benchmarkno reasoninghighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
SimpleQA Verified––42.9%#42–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench 2.0 Data Analysisnot in indexeffort not stated–––79.3%#14LiveBench
LiveBench Researchnot in indexeffort not stated–––86.8%#4LiveBench
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 index28.4%#196–46.4%#81–Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index46.0%#139–3.5%#542–Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

BenchmarkmaxSourceTrend
LiveBench Languagenot in index81.2%#28LiveBench
LiveBench Instruction Followingnot in index70.0%#30LiveBench
Arena Instruction Followingnot in index1477#25Arena (LMArena)

Human preference

BenchmarkmaxSourceTrend
Arena Text1476#33Arena (LMArena)
Arena Creative Writingnot in index1442#57Arena (LMArena)
Arena Multi-turnnot in index1468#64Arena (LMArena)
Arena Longer Queriesnot in index1481#45Arena (LMArena)

Multimodal

Benchmarkno reasoninghighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
Arena Vision––1278#38–Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench Designnot in indexeffort not stated–––79.2%#15LiveBench
MMMU-Pro65.6%#173–77.0%#85–Artificial Analysis
SAGEnot in index–47.9%#29––Vals AI

Long context

Benchmarkno reasoningmaxSourceTrend
AA-LCR55.3%#29884.0%#12Artificial Analysis
MLCRnot in index–23.9%#32Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmarkno reasoninghighmaxnot statedSourceTrend
Epoch Capabilities Indexnot in indexeffort not stated–––155.9#32Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench 2.0effort not stated–––78.0%#12LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0not in index––81.1%#9–LiveBench
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.224.7#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.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
Baseten316 tok/s0.28 s$0.300$1.201.0M–
Baseten289 tok/s0.15 s$0.300$1.201.0M–
Venice272 tok/s0.38 s$0.300$1.201Mfp8
Together267 tok/s0.17 s$0.300$1.201.0M–
Fireworks Spot238 tok/s0.43 s$0.210$0.8401.0M–
Baseten231 tok/s0.28 s$0.600$2.401.0M–
Cohere215 tok/s0.33 s$0.300$1.201.0M–
Fireworks212 tok/s0.56 s$0.450$1.801.0M–
DigitalOcean211 tok/s0.68 s$0.165$0.6601.0M–
Wafer193 tok/s0.38 s$0.220$0.6501.0Mmxfp4
Morph191 tok/s0.46 s$0.411$0.6001.0Mfp8
Parasail167 tok/s0.53 s$0.300$1.201.0Mfp8
Nebius Token Factory163 tok/s0.67 s$0.300$1.201.0Mfp8
Relace160 tok/s0.41 s$0.070$0.5001.0M–
CoreWeave148 tok/s0.76 s$0.150$0.6501.0Mfp8
ModelRun [by Modular]148 tok/s0.36 s$0.170$0.6701.0Mfp4
Prime Intellect139 tok/s0.58 s$0.300$1.201.0M–
Crusoe138 tok/s0.38 s$0.290$1.201.0Mfp8
inference.net129 tok/s0.37 s$0.103$0.7151.0Mfp8
inference.net121 tok/s0.35 s$0.103$0.7151.0Mfp8
Baidu Qianfan109 tok/s0.75 s$0.054$0.2151.0Mfp8
Reka AI108 tok/s0.38 s$0.105$0.8401.0M–
Makora108 tok/s0.41 s$0.260$1.171.0Mfp8
Decart101 tok/s0.61 s$0.090$0.1801.0Mfp4
Open Inference97 tok/s0.64 s$0.020$1.001.0Mfp4
Google Vertex97 tok/s0.48 s$0.300$1.201.0M–
Phala96 tok/s1.84 s$0.210$0.8401.0M–
AtlasCloud94 tok/s0.81 s$0.135$0.5401.0Mfp8
GMICloud84 tok/s1.95 s$0.180$0.7201.0Mfp8
Modal78 tok/s0.34 s$0.300$1.201.0M–
Fireworks76 tok/s0.72 s$0.300$1.201.0M–
SiliconFlow75 tok/s1.94 s$0.300$1.201.0Mfp8
NovitaAI73 tok/s1.47 s$0.195$0.7801.0Mfp8
DeepInfra72 tok/s0.71 s$0.140$0.4201.0Mfp8
StreamLake63 tok/s1.49 s$0.147$0.5881.0Mfp8
Alibaba Cloud Int.48 tok/s1.37 s$0.330$1.321M–
Mancer47 tok/s0.76 s$0.200$1.001.0Mfp8
DeepInfra40 tok/s1.13 s$0.210$0.6301.0Mfp8
DeepInfra25 tok/s4.60 s$0.112$0.3361.0Mfp8

Price history

The price above, per 1M tokens, every day it changed.

$0.00$0.330$0.660$0.990$1.32Sept 26Oct 26
input outputnow $0.300 in · $1.20 out

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.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0005$0.000413.6 s
Summarize a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.0043$0.001615.3 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.0036$0.002320.3 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.023$0.009434.1 s
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.0008$0.000413.1 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.