DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Beats V4-Pro 0813 at a Fraction of Competitor Pricing
Key Info
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash has outperformed DeepSeek V4-Pro 0813 less than a month after release. Priced at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, it costs roughly 1/20th of Opus 5, 1/17th of GPT-5.6 Sol, and 1/12th of Kimi K3, while beating all three on Terminal-Bench.
Highlights
- The new Flash model quickly overtakes the previous V4-Pro 0813 release, showing fast iteration.
- Its input/output pricing is dramatically lower than three major competing models, with claims of superior Terminal-Bench results.