DeepSeek · Open weights
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Thinking
The October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supports text and image input, tool calling, and optional reasoning with low, high, and max effort. It has a shared 1,048,576-token context window and supports up to 393,216 output tokens within the remaining context. Released under the MIT license.
- 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
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.2K tokens
- Longer than 78% of 465 models
Side by side
Compare models
Put DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Thinking next to up to three other models. The comparison stays in the link, so you can share it.
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
45.1
Tested at max reasoning effort
Better than 91% of 326 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
66.6%Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
Better than 95% of 173 scored models
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
36.7%Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
Better than 95% of 173 scored models
AA-Briefcasev1.1
1,570 EloAgentic knowledge work, rated head to head
Better than 90% of 166 scored models
GDPval-AAv2.1
1,746 EloEconomically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
Better than 96% of 187 scored models
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
17.2%Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
Better than 67% of 171 scored models
AA-LCRv1.1
82.7%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 88% of 309 scored models
MLCR-AA
26.7%Long-context reasoning over medical records
Better than 88% of 121 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
43.3%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 86% of 323 scored models
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
33.8%Practical software engineering in a terminal
Better than 82% of 171 scored models
SciCode
55.9%Scientific computing in Python
Better than 79% of 174 scored models
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
82.7%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 88% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 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
- 2.4 s
- Quicker than 68% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 91.2%
- About $0.0115 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.8%
- 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-1017: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-1017:thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)DeepSeek
Related models
Other DeepSeek models, starting with the same family.