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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is an open-weights language model from DeepSeek, released September 2026. Its published size is 552B parameters (16B active per token) and a 1M-token context window. Licence: mit.

77.5±0.7#21 of 719 LLMsfrom 24 benchmark results across 4 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, out of 828 with a score, then more from DeepSeek.

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19Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic78±0api $10.00/M2026-05
20GPT-5.4 OpenAI78±1api $5.63/M2026-03
21DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek78±1api $0.26/M +local~537GB2026-09
22Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic77±1api $0.20/M2026-10
23Gemini 3.8 Flash Google77±1api $1.50/M2026-09
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31DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) DeepSeek76±1api $1.63/M +local~1010GB2026-08
35DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale DeepSeek76±3comparison only
36DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp) DeepSeek76±2local~104GB2026-08

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #12 of 300 · 21% of its score · 9 tests

Beats GPT-5.5 Pro, GPT-5.4 Pro, GPT-5.5 here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena Agent (October 2026 aggregate IPS)0.0402 IPS ✎▁▁▁▄▂▃▇█▂▂▁▃ beats 34/49avg -0.312 IPS▇▇▇ 8.3%sharp
Terminal-Bench 4.0 lab31.2% ✎▁·▁··▁▇▇▅██▃ beats 16/30very hard · avg 0.3%▇ 3.5%sharp · small run
Terminal-Bench 2.1 lab90.6% ✎▁·▁·▁▁▄▃▄█▃▇ beats 55/56hard · avg 26%▇ 2.8%small run
Video2World V2WScore (coding agents reconstruct interactive simulated worlds from videos, OpenCode scaffold)30.5% ✎█··▄█·▄····▄ beats 3/6very hard · avg 6.6%▇ 2.0%at its level
Humanity's Last Exam with tools lab63.9% ✎▂▂▂▁▄▂▃▆█▇▂▆ beats 49/54hard · avg 17%▇ 1.4%at its level · small run
DeepSWE v1.1 (resolved) lab74.2% ✎▂····▁▁▁▆██▆ beats 27/28hard · avg 21%▇ 1.1%at its level · small run
Agents' Last Exam (pass@1, official scaffold) lab31.8% ✎█··········▄ beats 2/2very hard · avg 6.2%▇ 1.1%at its level · small run
Terminal-Bench 3.0 lab30.0% ✎█··█·······█ beats 2/2very hard · avg 2.1%▇ 0.7%noisy · small run
1 more test
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Chartography with tools lab78.9% ✎▃········▅██ beats 2/8—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #22 of 458 * · 8.5% of its score · 2 tests

Beats GPT-5.5, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, GPT-5.6 Terra here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Grok 4.7, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Qwen3.8 Max (0902) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena WebDev (Code Arena)1619.9 ✎▁▂▄▃▅█▄▇▆▄▁▁ beats 101/119avg 981▇▇▇ 7.3%sharp
DeepSWE v1.1 (resolved) lab74.2% ✎▂····▁▁▁▆██▆ beats 27/28hard · avg 21%▇ 1.1%at its level · small run
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #27 of 393 * · 4.1% of its score · 1 test

Beats Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra here, though they rank higher overall. Trails GLM-5.2, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena (text)1474.4 ✎▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 349/379avg 1268▇▇ 4.1%blunt
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #32 of 398 · 38% of its score · 4 tests

Trails GPT-5.2, Qwen3.7 Max, Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
FrontierMath tier 4 v226.8% ✎▁▂▁▂█▅▂▂▁▁▁▁ beats 28/63very hard · avg 0.1%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 19%sharp · at its level
FrontierMath tiers 1–3 v267.4% ✎▂··▁▁▃▄▄█▅▃▃ beats 55/82very hard · avg 1.2%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16%sharp · at its level
MathArena Apex (pass@1) lab65.6% ✎▄····▄···▄█▄ beats 4/5very hard · avg 15%▇ 1.8%at its level · small run
OTIS mock AIME 2024–202598.3% ✎▃▃▄▃▃▃▇▇█▃▃▅ beats 173/193very hard · avg 8.5%▇ 0.5%sharp · maxed out · noisy
web search██·········█ #1 of 3 * · 1.4% of its score · 1 test
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Humanity's Last Exam with tools lab63.9% ✎▂▂▂▁▄▂▃▆█▇▂▆ beats 49/54hard · avg 17%▇ 1.4%at its level · small run
other tests12 not in a task · 30% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Furniture Assembly (Epoch)34.2% ✎█▆▆▆▆▂▅▂▂▂·▅ beats 11/30very hard · avg 1.2%▇▇▇ 7.5%sharp · at its level
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch)43.0% ✎█··▂▃▇▄█▃▃▁▁ beats 62/74very hard · avg 9.4%▇▇▇ 6.7%sharp · at its level · noisy
GPQA Diamond +189.8% ✎▁▁▁▁▂▄▆▄▅▇█▅ beats 172/208hard · avg 39%▇▇▇ 6.4%sharp · small run · several runs
Humanity's Last Exam lab39.1% ✎▁▁▁▃▆▆▇██▆▁▃ beats 88/104very hard · avg 5.3%▇ 2.4%at its level · small run
NL2Repo lab64.0% ✎▂▂·▂▂▄█▆▆▂▄▆ beats 21/21very hard · avg 13%▇ 2.0%at its level · small run
SEC-Bench Pro (pass@1) lab62.8% ✎▄··▄···▄·▄·█ beats 4/5very hard · avg 7.2%▇ 1.5%at its level · small run
CyberGym lab88.1% ✎▄···▄··▄█▄█▄ beats 8/8medium · avg 36%▇ 1.2%small run
ExploitGym (pass@1) lab15.3% ✎▄···▄··▄▄··█ beats 4/5very hard · avg 0.5%▇ 1.1%noisy · small run
4 more tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AutomationBench (DeepSeek V4.1 card) lab54.8% ✎█··█·······█ beats 2/2very hard · avg 12%▇ 1.0%at its level · small run
ProgramBench (Almost@1) lab20.3% ✎█··········█ beats 1/1—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
BabyVision with tools lab89.6% ✎no other model yet—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
ZeroBench main with tools (pass@5) lab49.0% ✎no other model yet—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · $0.26/M · $0.15 in / $0.6 out per 1M tokens · 1M context · api-docs.deepseek.com ↗ · price sourceStandard base token rate from models.dev. Provider-specific tiers, long-context surcharges, caching and promotions may differ.

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~510.3 GB, NVIDIA only · from huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
    hf download deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash --local-dir DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-HF && cd DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-HF/inference && python -m pip install -r requirements.txt && python convert.py --hf-ckpt-path .. --save-path ../../DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-TP8 --model-parallel 8 --expert-dtype fp4 --tokenizer-path .. && torchrun --nproc-per-node 8 generate.py --ckpt-path ../../DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-TP8 --config config.json --interactive --temperature 0.6

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/deepseek-ai ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Epoch AI — internal evaluatio… 52%, deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Fla… 26%, LMArena leaderboard dataset 20% and 1 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Epoch AI — internal evaluations6▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 52%CC BY 4.0
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model card · lab-reported14▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 26%MIT
LMArena leaderboard dataset3▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20%CC BY 4.0
Video2World: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Interactive World Modeling from Embodied Videos (arXiv:2610.04432v2)1▇ 2%CC BY-SA 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 0%
weighted average= 77.5

not counted (4)

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model cardBabyVision with tools [correct]89.6%fewer than three models have this test yet, or this source ran it for this model alone
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model cardChartography with tools [correct]78.9%fewer than three models have this test yet, or this source ran it for this model alone
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model cardProgramBench (Almost@1) [correct]20.3%fewer than three models have this test yet, or this source ran it for this model alone
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model cardZeroBench main with tools (pass@5) [correct]49.0%fewer than three models have this test yet, or this source ran it for this model alone

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