DeepSeek · Open weights
DeepSeek Flash Latest
Moving alias for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, with text and image input, tool calling, structured output, and optional reasoning. Zero data retention and JSON Schema output are available on eligible routes; output limits and reasoning levels depend on the selected route.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- none · low · high · max
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.10
- Output
- $0.60
- Cache read
- $0.003
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 393.2K
Side by side
DeepSeek Flash Latest compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| DeepSeek Flash LatestDeepSeekThis model | Claude Sonnet 4.6AnthropicRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Anthropic |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Aug 2, 2026 | Feb 17, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05MBest | 1M |
| Max output | 393.22KBest | 128K |
| Average output | — | 401 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.10Best | $3.00 |
| Output | $0.60Best | $15.00 |
| Cache read | $0.003Best | $0.30 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 252.2 tok/sBest | 129.6 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 2.2 s | 1.2 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 99.7% | 99.7% |
| 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 |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, 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 Flash Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
Intelligence Index
- DeepSeek Flash Latest24.7
- Claude Sonnet 4.624.7
DeepSeek Flash Latest: Better than 60% of 326 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 47.8%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 14.2%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 1,118 Elo
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 1,340 Elo
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 3.8%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 55.3%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 68.3%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 10.8%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 13.3%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 79.9%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 41.2%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 5.6%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 35.5%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.2%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: —
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 79.5%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- DeepSeek Flash Latest: 55.3%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 68.3%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- DeepSeek Flash Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek Flash Latest | 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 Flash Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek Flash Latest | 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 Flash Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek Flash Latest | 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 Flash Latest
- Claude Sonnet 4.6
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek Flash Latest | 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
- 252.2 tok/s
- Faster than 90% of 254 models
- Time to first token
- 2.2 s
- Quicker than 71% of 254 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 90.2%
- About $0.0125 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.7%
- 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": "deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest",
"reasoning_effort": "none",
"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="deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)DeepSeek
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