DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: low API prices, huge open weights
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash activates 8B parameters on input, but its full weights are enormous. I explain the API prices, coding scores and server requirements.
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open-weights
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DeepSeek V4 Flash lost all 9 benchmarks to Opus 4.8
V4 Flash costs $0.14 in and $0.28 out per million tokens. I checked whether its 97 to 99 percent discount makes DeepSeek's benchmark losses worth it.
Kimi K3 matches GPT-5.6. It takes 4.6 times as long
Kimi K3 ties GPT-5.6 medium but takes 4.6 times as long. GLM-5.2 is cheap per token yet costly per task. I checked where both models still win.