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.
10 undominated of 142 · Nov 5, 2026
As of Nov 5, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is on the value frontier for Balanced on LMArena. Nothing in this catalogue scores at least as high for less, or higher for the same price. 10 of 142 rated, priced standard models are undominated. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Price under confirmation since Nov 5, 2026.
Nothing in this catalogue scores at least as high as DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for less, or higher for the same price.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash takes text, image, returns up to 943,718 tokens from a 1,048,576-token context, and is listed by 39 sellers.
Compared against 142 rated, priced models on this lens, nothing dominates it: no model is at least as good on both quality and price and better on one. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 1464.5 at $0.096 per million tokens for this mix.
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