DeepSeek · Open weights
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's October 17, 2026 checkpoint (1017) supports text and image input, reasoning, tool calling, and structured output with a 1M-token context window. This route runs through Tinfoil attested inference inside a Trusted Execution Environment. Tinfoil lists this model as experimental, with availability subject to change.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Parallel tools
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- none · low · medium · high · max
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.65
- Output
- $1.45
- Cache read
- $0.13
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 384K
- Average output (7 days)
- 571 tokens
- Longer than 53% of 465 models
Side by side
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEEDeepSeekThis model | Claude Sonnet 4.6AnthropicRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Anthropic |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Sep 12, 2026 | Feb 17, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05MBest | 1M |
| Max output | 384KBest | 128K |
| Average output | 571 tokens | 401 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.65Best | $3.00 |
| Output | $1.45Best | $15.00 |
| Cache read | $0.13Best | $0.30 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 239.9 tok/sBest | 79.9 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 3.0 s | 1.6 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 99.9%Best | 99.6% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 24.7 | 24.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Parallel tools | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, medium, high, max | low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
Intelligence Index
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE24.7
- Claude Sonnet 4.624.7
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: Better than 60% of 326 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 47.8%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 14.2%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 1,118 Elo
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 1,340 Elo
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 3.8%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 55.3%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 68.3%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 10.8%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 13.3%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 79.9%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 41.2%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 5.6%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 35.5%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.2%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 79.5%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE: 55.3%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 68.3%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1528.2 |
| Longer Query | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1492.3 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1499.6 |
| Vision Style Control · English | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1282.8 |
| Document Overall | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1482.2 |
| Document Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1477.7 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not in top 20 | #8 · 75.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1200 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #16 · 79.9 |
| EQ-Bench 3 | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1710 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash TEE | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| ASCII Art | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1233 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1141 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1213 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1198 |
| Mobile Apps | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1211 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 239.9 tok/s
- Faster than 88% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 3.0 s
- Quicker than 57% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 58.8%
- About $0.34 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.9%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "TEE/deepseek-v4.1-flash",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="TEE/deepseek-v4.1-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)DeepSeek
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