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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking

Added Sep 8, 2026Open weights

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supports text and image input, reasoning, tool calling, and structured output with a 1M-token context window. This is a rate-limited beta with limited capacity, intended for testing rather than production use.

  • 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
$0.09
Output
$0.25
Cache read
$0.006

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
1M
Max output
384K
Average output (7 days)
785 tokens
Longer than 64% of 465 models

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ThinkingDeepSeekThis modelGemini 3.8 FlashGoogleRemove
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Discovery tierOpen weightsEfficient
AddedSep 8, 2026Sep 2, 2026
Limits
Context window1M1.05MBest
Max output384KBest65.54K
Average output785 tokens1.2K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.09Best$0.75
Output$0.25Best$3.75
Cache read$0.006Best$0.075
Cache write—$0.0417
Performance
Throughput261.1 tok/sBest164.7 tok/s
Time to first token2.7 sBest5.9 s
Request success (24h)99.9%Best99.8%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index39.539.8Best
Coding Index—74.1
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputNoYes
Audio inputNoYes
Video inputNoYes
Reasoning effortnone, low, high, maxminimal, low, medium, high

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash

Intelligence Index

  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking39.5
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash39.8

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking tested at max reasoning effort

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: Better than 84% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: —
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.1

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 68.9%Top
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 60.9%

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 35.5%Top
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 31.1%

  • Harvey LAB-AAv1.1

    Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 1.7%
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: —

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 1,419 EloTop
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1,181 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 1,600 EloTop
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1,423 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 12.8%
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 22.8%Top

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 84.0%Top
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 84.0%Top

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 23.9%Top
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 12.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 39.2%
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 42.1%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: —
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 93.5%

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 26.8%Top
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 19.7%

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 51.9%
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 55.1%Top

Legacy evaluations

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 84.0%Top
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash: 84.0%Top

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis

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
261.1 tok/s
Faster than 90% of 250 models
Time to first token
2.7 s
Quicker than 62% of 250 models
Prompt cache hits
83.6%
About $0.0198 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.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 98.4%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:thinking",
    "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-v4.1-flash:thinking",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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