Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

6 undominated of 137 · Sep 19, 2026

As of Sep 19, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has no independent quality score. We cannot rank it. Absence of a score is not a score of zero.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

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3 tokens in per 1 out

LMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
137 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash takes text, image, returns up to 384,000 tokens from a 1,048,576-token context, and is listed by 21 sellers.

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