DeepSeek · Open weights
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
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)
- 376 tokens
- Longer than 38% of 465 models
Side by side
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekThis model | Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionaiRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | inclusionai |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Sep 8, 2026 | Sep 9, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1MBest | 262.14K |
| Max output | 384KBest | 32.77K |
| Average output | 376 tokens | 843 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.09 | $0.06Best |
| Output | $0.25 | $0.18Best |
| Cache read | $0.006Best | $0.012 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 206.3 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 1.8 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 99.8%Best | 99.5% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 24.7Best | 24.6 |
| Coding Index | — | 57.0 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, high, max | none, 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
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Intelligence Index
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash24.7
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL24.6
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Better than 60% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: —
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 57.0
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 47.8%Top
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 15.7%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 14.2%Top
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 1.1%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 1,118 EloTop
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 984 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 1,340 EloTop
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 1,161 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 3.8%
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 8.4%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 55.3%
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 78.3%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: —
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 5.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 10.8%
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 22.0%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: —
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 86.2%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 5.6%Top
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 35.5%
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 44.2%Top
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 55.3%
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 78.3%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Ling 3.0 Flash VL |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | #16 · 43.9% | Not in top 20 |
| FrontierCode Extended | #17 · 56.6% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Ling 3.0 Flash VL |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | #14 · 1331 | Not in top 20 |
| Website | #15 · 1308 | Not in top 20 |
| UI Component | #15 · 1309 | Not in top 20 |
| Data Visualization | #16 · 1291 | Not in top 20 |
| SVG | #17 · 1242 | Not in top 20 |
| 3D | #13 · 1354 | Not in top 20 |
| ASCII Art | #13 · 1263 | Not in top 20 |
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
- 206.3 tok/s
- Faster than 83% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 1.8 s
- Quicker than 84% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 86.7%
- About $0.0172 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",
"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",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)DeepSeek
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