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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is an open-weights language model from DeepSeek, released October 2026. Licence: mit.

Model information sources

Release date ↗

79.1±1.4#15 of 729 LLMsfrom 9 benchmark results across 2 sources

Score within the LMArena (text) comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, out of 882 with a score, then more from DeepSeek.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
13Claude Mythos Preview (limited preview) Anthropic80±1limited preview2026-04
14GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI79±1api $67.50/M2026-03
15DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 DeepSeek79±1api $0.26/M2026-10
16Muse Wonder Meta79±1api $8.00/M2026-10
17GPT-5.5 OpenAI78±0api $11.25/M2026-04
more from DeepSeek
24DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek76±1local~512GB2026-09
35DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) DeepSeek75±1api $1.63/M +local~1010GB2026-08
39DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale DeepSeek74±3comparison only

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▅▅▅▅▄▃▁ #11 of 310 · 39% of its score · 4 tests

Beats Muse Wonder Full, GPT-5.5 Pro, GPT-5.6 Sol here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Terminal-Bench 4.0 lab42.3% ✎▁·▁··▁▆▆▅█▇▂ beats 22/31very hard · avg 0.6%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 19%sharp · at its level · small run
Chartography with tools lab83.0% ✎▂········▄█▆ beats 3/9very hard · avg 8.1%▇▇▇▇▇ 13%sharp · small run
DeepSWE v1.1 (resolved) lab77.0% ✎▂····▂▁▁▆███ beats 30/31hard · avg 26%▇▇ 4.3%at its level · small run
Agents' Last Exam (metric/harness unspecified) lab35.4% ✎▂·▂·█▄▃··▂▄▄ beats 8/13very hard · avg 7.6%▇▇ 3.9%at its level · small run
coding▁▁▁▃▆▇█▇▅▄▃▁ #13 of 466 * · 40% of its score · 2 tests

Beats GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Qwen3.8 Max (0902), Qwen3.8 Max (2.4T-A95B) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena WebDev (Code Arena)1664.3 ✎▁▁▃▃▆█▄▇▅▅▁▁ beats 115/126avg 978▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 36%sharp
DeepSWE v1.1 (resolved) lab77.0% ✎▂····▂▁▁▆███ beats 30/31hard · avg 26%▇▇ 4.3%at its level · small run
other tests4 not in a task · 24% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Humanity's Last Exam lab42.6% ✎▁▁▁▄▅▆▆██▆▁▃ beats 95/108very hard · avg 4.3%▇▇▇ 7.8%at its level · small run
AutomationBench v1.0.6 lab60.5% ✎▃···▃·▃▃··█▅ beats 8/8very hard · avg 9.1%▇▇▇ 6.3%at its level · small run
NL2Repo lab68.2% ✎▂▂▂·▃▃▅█▃▂▅▃ beats 22/22very hard · avg 15%▇▇ 5.7%at its level · small run
BabyVision with tools lab92.5% ✎█······█··██ beats 3/3medium · avg 47%▇▇ 4.4%small run

$ 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 sourceUSD per 1M tokens, off-peak uncached input/output. Peak rates are $0.30/$1.20, 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC weekdays excluding Chinese public holidays. Cached input excluded. API deepseek-flash serves the 1017 checkpoint; old Flash aliases also route here. Observed 2026-10-21.

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

$ how the score was worked out · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 mode… 64%, LMArena leaderboard dataset 36%

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
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 model card · lab-reported8MIT
LMArena leaderboard dataset1CC BY 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle
weighted average= 79.1

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