🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient.
🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding.
🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models.
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🧠 Asymmetric architecture. More intelligence, less cost.
🔹 552B-parameter MoE.
🔹 New Causal Encoder–Decoder architecture: just 8B active parameters for input, 16B for output.
🔹 New pre-training methods + larger-scale RL post-training deliver benchmark results ahead of flagship models, including DeepSeek-V4-Pro.
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💾 Smaller KV cache. Bigger savings.
Compared with the previous generation, V4.1-Flash’s KV cache needs just:
🔹 1/4 the HBM
🔹 1/8 the SSD storage
Cache-hit charges often account for a large share of agent costs. Compressing the cache cuts those costs significantly.
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⚡ V4.1-Flash is now live on the DeepSeek API with native multimodal support.
Set your model to deepseek-flash.
🔹 V4-Flash & V4-Flash-Vision-Exp are retired. For compatibility, deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp temporarily route to V4.1-Flash.
🔹 Tests by multiple parties put V4.1-Flash ahead of V4-Pro on performance, cost, speed & total runtime. We’re phasing out V4-Pro.
🔹 Starting at 04:00 UTC on Sept 14, 2026, all deepseek-v4-pro requests will route to V4.1-Flash at V4.1-Flash rates. This will continue until V4.1-Pro launches.
🤝 Official partners @WorkBuddy_AI (including Codebuddy) & @opencode now fully support V4.1-Flash. Try it today!
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💰 More efficient architecture. Lower API prices.
V4.1-Flash lets us serve more users at a lower cost. We’re passing the savings on to you.
🔹 Peak/off-peak pricing continues to balance demand.
🔹 Off-peak rates are 50% of peak rates. Schedule flexible workloads off-peak to save.
🔹 New pricing takes effect at 04:00 UTC on Sept 10, 2026.
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🌐 Supporting open source. Expanding deployment options.
We’ll work closely with the open-source community on V4.1-Flash inference support and explore more deployment options. Planning a large-scale deployment with 2,000 GPUs + a storage cluster? Let’s talk.
🔹 Model: https://t.co/rv2G2TN66a
🔹 Paper: https://t.co/FIECPM1SSV
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Congrats DeepSeek on another epic release! Hopefully you guys will release smaller models for people to run locally. 🙏🐋
It's great that DeepSeek-V4.1 has 196B engram making it more accessible.
