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DeepSeek V4.1-Flash

DeepSeek's new default model and the replacement for the retired V4-Flash: MIT weights, 1M context, 384K max output, and image input.

Organisation
DeepSeek
Weights published
Licence
MIT
Size
552B total MoE (encoder-decoder; 8B active for input, 16B for output)
Modalities
textimage
Comparison catalog
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash profile

Practical fit

The low-cost hosted route ($0.30/$1.20 peak, $0.15/$0.60 off-peak) with an open-weight exit for teams that can serve a 552B MoE.

Deployment note

Hosted API id is `deepseek-flash`; the legacy `deepseek-v4-flash` ids temporarily route here. Self-hosting still means serving the full expert set.

Where to go next

Other open-weight releases