DeepSeek · Open weights
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
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
Side by side
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ThinkingDeepSeekThis model | Muse Spark 1.2MetaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Sep 8, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 384KBest | 65.54K |
| Average output | 785 tokens | 172 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.09Best | $1.25 |
| Output | $0.25Best | $4.25 |
| Cache read | $0.006Best | $0.15 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 261.1 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 2.7 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 99.9% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 39.5 | 39.6Best |
| Coding Index | — | 72.2 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Parallel tools | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, high, max | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
- Muse Spark 1.2
Intelligence Index
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking39.5
- Muse Spark 1.239.6
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking tested at max reasoning effort
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: Better than 84% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.2
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 68.9%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 40.6%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 35.5%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 15.7%
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 1.7%
- Muse Spark 1.2: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 1,419 EloTop
- Muse Spark 1.2: 1,327 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 1,600 EloTop
- Muse Spark 1.2: 1,475 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 12.8%
- Muse Spark 1.2: 17.4%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 84.0%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 79.0%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 23.9%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 7.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 39.2%
- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.5%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 90.4%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 26.8%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 7.1%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 51.9%
- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.4%Top
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking: 84.0%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2: 79.0%
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
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Expert | #20 · 1516.3 | Not in top 20 |
| German | #13 · 1493.6 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | #11 · 1505.4 | #9 · 1512.4 |
| WebDev · Image To Webdev | #10 · 1606.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Overall | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1491.4 |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1541.3 |
| Hard Prompts | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1511.5 |
| English | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1492.1 |
| Exclude Ties | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1507.0 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1511.4 |
| Hard Prompts English | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1509.2 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1502.1 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1522.7 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1508.6 |
| Industry Software And It Services | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1532.2 |
| Korean | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1464.8 |
| Multi Turn | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1511.2 |
| Non English | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1483.8 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1493.1 |
| Spanish | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1484.2 |
| Vision Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1292.7 |
| Vision Style Control · Diagram | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1316.5 |
| Vision Style Control · Ocr | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1306.6 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1–3) | #5 · 67.4% | Not in top 20 |
| GPQA Diamond | #11 · 89.8% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | #16 · 94.5% | Not in top 20 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | #18 · 72.9% | Not in top 20 |
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | #11 · 0.9% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Combined | Not in top 20 | #18 · 6.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Combined leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #17 · 16.8% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1842 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #13 · 81.5 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking
- Muse Spark 1.2
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Thinking | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | Not in top 20 | #20 · 1302 |
| Website | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1312 |
| UI Component | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1295 |
| Data Visualization | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1334 |
| SVG | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1280 |
| 3D | Not in top 20 | #19 · 1299 |
| ASCII Art | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1278 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1142 |
| Web Apps | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1221 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1210 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1224 |
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
- 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
- 86.7%
- About $0.0171 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": "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)DeepSeek
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