DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API pricing per million tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output, with a 1M context window.
AIGROW credit covers Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra, Grok 4.7 and Gemini 4 Argon. See API credit
$25 a month brings $110 of API credit and cancels any time; $25 once buys $100. US dollars per million tokens, standard rate, shortest context band. Number 34 of 256 on the Epoch Capabilities Index by Epoch AI, data of 12 November 2026. CC BY 4.0
- 1,000 support replies
- $1.38
- Cached input
- $0.006
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Released
- 10 Sep 2026
- Weights
- Open weights
From DeepSeek’s own pages, 12 November 2026.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on DeepSeek’s own API, and $0.006 for cached input. At those prices 1,000 support replies cost $1.38, the 12th cheapest of 49 priced models on our list.
AIGROW API credit per million input / output tokens: Claude Opus 5.5 $1.60 / $8.00, Claude Fable 5.2 $3.20 / $16.00, Claude Fable 5.1 $4.00 / $20.00, GPT-6 Astra $2.50 / $12.50, Claude Sonnet 5.5 $0.80 / $4.00, GPT-6.1 Sol $0.50 / $2.50, GPT-6.1 Terra $0.25 / $1.25, Grok 4.7 $0.50 / $1.50 and Gemini 4 Argon $1.00 / $5.00. That is up to 75% below list price. See API credit
What a job costs
Three jobs, 1,000 runs of each, at the list price above, and where each puts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash among the 49 models with a list price.
| Job | 1,000 runs | Among 49 |
|---|---|---|
| Support reply3,000 in, 400 out. | $1.38 | 12th cheapest |
| Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out. | $8.70 | 12th cheapest |
| Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out. | $7.02 | 9th cheapest |
The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are DeepSeek’s. All three jobs stay under 100,000 tokens a request, below every long-context surcharge on the list.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on real small-business tasks
What the AIGROW benchmark measured when DeepSeek V4.1 Flash was given 20 office tasks, each marked pass or fail by fixed checks.
- Success rate
- 90% of 20 runs passed (95% interval 70 to 97%), 4th of 36 models.
- Cost per 1,000 passes
- $1.05, failed runs included.
- Answer time
- 14 s median, 127 s at the 90th percentile.
- Strongest and weakest
- Appointment scheduling (100% passed) and review replies (0%).
The small print
What the base rate above leaves out, copied from the maker’s pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
Peak-hour rate, recorded as the list price. Off-peak is half: $0.15 / $0.60, cache hit $0.003. API name deepseek-flash, which serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 since 2026-10-17 at unchanged prices. Max output 384K.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash against the models it is weighed with
Each comparison puts both list prices side by side and costs the same three jobs on each.
- vs GPT-5.6 Luna
- Two low-cost APIs for bulk work, with DeepSeek cheaper again off-peak.
- vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Budget models with 1M context, compared for document-heavy tasks.
- vs Qwen3.8 Flash
- Chinese budget APIs, with Qwen's list price about half of DeepSeek's peak rate.
- vs Grok 4.3
- xAI's cheapest model against DeepSeek's, for teams comparing low-cost options outside OpenAI and Google.
- vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash
- Open-weight budget APIs with 1M context, where MiniMax's list price matches DeepSeek's off-peak rate.
Other DeepSeek models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | 1,000 replies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek · open weights | $1.32 | $3.96 | 1M | $5.54 |
Where the price comes from
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Compare DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with 53 other models
The price list sets every model’s input and output price side by side, with what a support reply, a document summary and an agent task cost on each.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date