
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (nitro)
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017:nitro
Model weightsDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the deepseek-flash API model name. V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on output from a 552B-parameter backbone, an asymmetric split that keeps per-token compute low relative to the model's total size. Image understanding is native to the architecture, with visual and text embeddings trained jointly from the start of pre-training rather than added afterward as in the earlier experimental V4 Flash Vision ExpOpens in new tab.
It is suited for coding, terminal, and computer-use agents, along with long-horizon tasks that must run to completion across many steps and long-context analysis. Compressed KV caching cuts cache memory to roughly a quarter of the previous Flash generation, significantly reducing costs on agentic workloads. DeepSeek positions it as the cost-efficient tier of the V4.1 family and reports that it exceeds V4 ProOpens in new tab on performance, speed, and task completion time.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Latency | Throughput | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fast | $0.60000 | $2.4000 | $0.014000 | 0.42s | 375 tok/s | |
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.006000 | 0.45s | 226 tok/s | ||
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.006000 | 0.43s | 217 tok/s | ||
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.007000 | 1.19s | 203 tok/s | ||
| $0.29000 | $1.2000 | $0.007000 | 0.55s | 202 tok/s | ||
| $0.45000 | $1.8000 | $0.009000 | 0.62s | 199 tok/s | ||
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.006000 | 0.79s | 182 tok/s | ||
| $0.18000 | $0.7200 | $0.006000 | 0.61s | 178 tok/s | ||
| $0.24000 | $0.9600 | $0.004800 | 0.62s | 173 tok/s | ||
65% off | $0.30$0.10500 | $1.20$0.4200 | $0.006$0.002100 | 0.71s | 168 tok/s | |
| $0.21000 | $0.6200 | $0.010500 | 0.63s | 167 tok/s | ||
| $0.07000 | $0.5000 | $0.006900 | 0.52s | 165 tok/s | ||
40% off | $0.30$0.18000 | $1.20$0.7200 | $0.006$0.003600 | 0.75s | 157 tok/s | |
| $0.03800 | $0.5000 | $0.010000 | 0.50s | 153 tok/s | ||
| $0.06000 | $0.5000 | $0.010000 | 0.61s | 143 tok/s | ||
| $0.12000 | $0.5000 | $0.003000 | 0.62s | 141 tok/s | ||
| $0.15000 | $0.5000 | $0.003000 | 0.40s | 141 tok/s | ||
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.007500 | 0.88s | 141 tok/s | ||
| $0.25000 | $1.0000 | $0.005000 | 0.63s | 139 tok/s | ||
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.006000 | 0.54s | 139 tok/s | ||
57% off | $0.28$0.11980 | $1.13$0.4836 | $0.006$0.002568 | 0.67s | 137 tok/s | |
| $0.15000 | $1.2000 | $0.006000 | 0.95s | 136 tok/s | ||
| $0.21$0.10500 | $0.84$0.4200 | $0.0042$0.002100 | 0.81s | 135 tok/s | ||
| $0.15000 | $0.6000 | $0.003000 | 1.14s | 133 tok/s | ||
| $0.07272 | $0.1080 | $0.007000 | 2.01s | 126 tok/s | ||
| $0.07272 | $0.1080 | $0.007000 | 2.17s | 123 tok/s | ||
| $0.12000 | $0.4800 | $0.002400 | 0.66s | 120 tok/s | ||
| $0.21000 | $0.8400 | $0.004200 | 1.42s | 118 tok/s | ||
| $0.07000 | $0.8000 | $0.006000 | 0.77s | 117 tok/s | ||
| $0.30$0.14700 | $0.90$0.4410 | $0.009$0.004410 | 1.13s | 117 tok/s | ||
| $0.08000 | $0.6050 | $0.008000 | 0.27s | 115 tok/s | ||
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.007000 | 0.55s | 113 tok/s | ||
| $0.20$0.09800 | $0.60$0.2940 | $0.006$0.002940 | 0.76s | 111 tok/s | ||
| $0.04368 | $0.7000 | $0.002400 | 1.18s | 109 tok/s | ||
| $0.19500 | $0.7800 | $0.003900 | 1.63s | 108 tok/s | ||
| $0.18000 | $0.6800 | $0.006000 | 1.28s | 106 tok/s | ||
| $0.08000 | $0.6050 | $0.008000 | 0.26s | 102 tok/s | ||
| $0.08900 | $0.5000 | $0.004000 | 0.73s | 100 tok/s | ||
| $0.10000 | $0.6000 | $0.003000 | 2.54s | 97 tok/s | ||
45% off | $0.30$0.16500 | $1.20$0.6600 | $0.006$0.003300 | 1.53s | 93 tok/s | |
| $0.30000 | $0.5500 | $0.006000 | 0.96s | 79 tok/s | ||
| $0.16000 | $1.1000 | $0.008000 | 0.86s | 77 tok/s | ||
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.006000 | 2.34s | 71 tok/s | ||
63% off | $0.30$0.11100 | $1.20$0.4440 | $0.006$0.002220 | 2.14s | 70 tok/s | |
| $0.30000 | $1.2000 | $0.006000 | 0.88s | 59 tok/s | ||
Not used in Nitro routing:Why these endpoints are not used | ||||||
Flex | $0.07750 | $0.2325 | $0.002325 | 0.70s | 171 tok/s | |
| $0.03000 | $0.2500 | $0.005000 | 0.75s | 132 tok/s | ||
| $0.16$0.07840 | $0.48$0.2352 | $0.0048$0.002352 | 32.93s | 49 tok/s | ||
- Input $0.60 / Output $2.40375 tok/s98.95% uptimeFast
- Input $0.30 / Output $1.20226 tok/s98.82% uptime
- Input $0.30 / Output $1.20217 tok/s99.58% uptime
Input $0.30 / Output $1.20203 tok/s99.73% uptime- Input $0.29 / Output $1.20202 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.45 / Output $1.80199 tok/s99.97% uptime
Input $0.30 / Output $1.20182 tok/s99.78% uptime- Input $0.18 / Output $0.72178 tok/s99.97% uptime
Input $0.24 / Output $0.96173 tok/s97.76% uptime- Input $0.105 / Output $0.4265% off168 tok/s99.46% uptime
- Input $0.21 / Output $0.62167 tok/s98.78% uptime
- Input $0.07 / Output $0.50165 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.18 / Output $0.7240% off157 tok/s99.67% uptime
- Input $0.038 / Output $0.50153 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.06 / Output $0.50143 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.50141 tok/s99.97% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.50141 tok/s100.00% uptime- Input $0.30 / Output $1.20141 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.25 / Output $1.00139 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.30 / Output $1.20139 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.1198 / Output $0.483657% off137 tok/s99.23% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $1.20136 tok/s99.83% uptime
- Input $0.105 / Output $0.42135 tok/s98.84% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.60133 tok/s100.00% uptime- Input $0.07272 / Output $0.108126 tok/s99.79% uptime
- Input $0.07272 / Output $0.108123 tok/s99.72% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.48120 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.21 / Output $0.84118 tok/s93.99% uptime- Input $0.07 / Output $0.80117 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.147 / Output $0.441117 tok/s99.97% uptimePriority+11 more label- Input $0.08 / Output $0.605115 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.30 / Output $1.20113 tok/s99.51% uptime
Input $0.098 / Output $0.29451% off111 tok/s99.93% uptime- Input $0.04368 / Output $0.70109 tok/s99.97% uptime
- Input $0.195 / Output $0.78108 tok/s99.97% uptime
- Input $0.18 / Output $0.68106 tok/s98.93% uptime
- Input $0.08 / Output $0.605102 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.089 / Output $0.50100 tok/s96.24% uptime
- Input $0.10 / Output $0.6097 tok/s99.97% uptime
- Input $0.165 / Output $0.6645% off93 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.30 / Output $0.5579 tok/s99.81% uptime
- Input $0.16 / Output $1.1077 tok/s99.83% uptime
- Input $0.30 / Output $1.2071 tok/s99.85% uptime
- Input $0.111 / Output $0.44463% off70 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.30 / Output $1.2059 tok/s100.00% uptime- Not used in Nitro routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Input $0.0775 / Output $0.2325171 tok/s99.23% uptimeFlex
- Input $0.03 / Output $0.25132 tok/s100.00% uptimeFlex
Input $0.0784 / Output $0.235249 tok/s97.54% uptimeFlex+11 more label
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 — Price history
| $0.00454 | $0.699 | 94.8% | 3.0% | ||
| $0.00815 | $0.710 | 97.6% | 22.7% | ||
| $0.00985 | $0.420 | 92.5% | 2.6% | ||
| $0.00999 | $0.512 | 93.7% | 2.3% | ||
| $0.01004 | $0.800 | 93.7% | 2.1% | ||
| $0.01056 | $0.480 | 93.1% | 2.0% | ||
| $0.01129 | $0.319 | 92.7% | 8.9% | ||
| $0.01131 | $0.446 | 91.7% | 0.9% | ||
| $0.01133 | $0.108 | 93.1% | 1.3% | ||
| $0.01146 | $0.600 | 91.3% | 1.1% | ||
| $0.01155 | $0.524 | 90.1% | 3.7% | ||
| $0.01157 | $0.108 | 92.4% | 0.6% | ||
| $0.01239 | $0.500 | 92.0% | 5.0% | ||
| $0.01311 | $0.500 | 93.1% | 3.0% | ||
| $0.01323 | $0.500 | 88.4% | 6.3% | ||
| $0.01393 | $0.450 | 93.7% | 1.1% | ||
| $0.01404 | $0.662 | 93.4% | 0.8% | ||
| $0.01416 | $0.779 | 94.6% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.01452 | $0.500 | 88.4% | 1.4% | ||
| $0.01508 | $0.604 | 90.1% | 4.9% | ||
| $0.01539 | $0.604 | 89.7% | 1.1% | ||
| $0.01660 | $0.720 | 93.9% | 3.3% | ||
| $0.01760 | $0.500 | 81.0% | 0.4% | ||
| $0.01855 | $0.680 | 92.8% | 0.2% | ||
| $0.01881 | $1.200 | 91.1% | 0.3% | ||
| $0.02104 | $0.720 | 90.1% | 0.2% | ||
| $0.02232 | $0.840 | 91.2% | 0.6% | ||
| $0.02253 | $1.200 | 94.4% | 7.2% | ||
| $0.02277 | $1.199 | 94.3% | 0.0% | ||
| $0.02338 | $1.100 | 89.9% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.02372 | $0.610 | 86.4% | 0.4% | ||
| $0.02498 | $0.511 | 90.9% | 1.0% | ||
| $0.02599 | $1.000 | 91.4% | 0.5% | ||
| $0.02618 | $0.550 | 93.1% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.02869 | $1.200 | 92.6% | 1.6% | ||
| $0.03041 | $1.200 | 91.7% | 2.2% | ||
| $0.03366 | $1.200 | 90.6% | 1.7% | ||
| $0.03404 | $1.200 | 90.9% | 0.0% | ||
| $0.03787 | $1.200 | 89.2% | 1.1% | ||
| $0.04030 | $1.200 | 88.6% | 0.2% | ||
| $0.04176 | $0.959 | 84.3% | 0.0% | ||
| $0.04218 | $1.200 | 87.7% | 0.6% | ||
| $0.04898 | $1.799 | 90.9% | 0.9% | ||
| $0.09677 | $1.200 | 69.1% | 0.1% | ||
Fast | $0.13103 | $2.400 | 80.0% | 0.2% | |
Not used in Nitro routing:Why these endpoints are not used | |||||
| $0.00885 | $0.249 | 80.8% | 1.1% | ||
Flex | $0.01044 | $0.232 | 89.2% | 0.3% | |
| $0.00568 | $0.237 | 95.7% | 0.5% | ||
- Effective in $0.00454 / Effective out $0.699Token share3.0%
- Effective in $0.00815 / Effective out $0.710Token share22.7%
- Effective in $0.00985 / Effective out $0.420Token share2.6%
- Effective in $0.00999 / Effective out $0.512Token share2.3%
- Effective in $0.01004 / Effective out $0.800Token share2.1%
- Effective in $0.01056 / Effective out $0.480Token share2.0%
- Effective in $0.01129 / Effective out $0.319Token share8.9%
- Effective in $0.01131 / Effective out $0.446Token share0.9%
- Effective in $0.01133 / Effective out $0.108Token share1.3%
- Effective in $0.01146 / Effective out $0.600Token share1.1%
- Effective in $0.01155 / Effective out $0.524Token share3.7%
- Effective in $0.01157 / Effective out $0.108Token share0.6%
- Effective in $0.01239 / Effective out $0.500Token share5.0%
- Effective in $0.01311 / Effective out $0.500Token share3.0%
- Effective in $0.01323 / Effective out $0.500Token share6.3%
- Effective in $0.01393 / Effective out $0.450PriorityToken share1.1%
- Effective in $0.01404 / Effective out $0.662Token share0.8%
- Effective in $0.01416 / Effective out $0.779Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.01452 / Effective out $0.500Token share1.4%
- Effective in $0.01508 / Effective out $0.604Token share4.9%
- Effective in $0.01539 / Effective out $0.604Token share1.1%
- Effective in $0.01660 / Effective out $0.720Token share3.3%
- Effective in $0.01760 / Effective out $0.500Token share0.4%
- Effective in $0.01855 / Effective out $0.680Token share0.2%
- Effective in $0.01881 / Effective out $1.200Token share0.3%
- Effective in $0.02104 / Effective out $0.720Token share0.2%
- Effective in $0.02232 / Effective out $0.840Token share0.6%
- Effective in $0.02253 / Effective out $1.200Token share7.2%
- Effective in $0.02277 / Effective out $1.199Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.02338 / Effective out $1.100Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.02372 / Effective out $0.610Token share0.4%
- Effective in $0.02498 / Effective out $0.511Token share1.0%
- Effective in $0.02599 / Effective out $1.000Token share0.5%
- Effective in $0.02618 / Effective out $0.550Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.02869 / Effective out $1.200Token share1.6%
- Effective in $0.03041 / Effective out $1.200Token share2.2%
- Effective in $0.03366 / Effective out $1.200Token share1.7%
- Effective in $0.03404 / Effective out $1.200Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.03787 / Effective out $1.200Token share1.1%
- Effective in $0.04030 / Effective out $1.200Token share0.2%
- Effective in $0.04176 / Effective out $0.959Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.04218 / Effective out $1.200Token share0.6%
- Effective in $0.04898 / Effective out $1.799Token share0.9%
- Effective in $0.09677 / Effective out $1.200Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.13103 / Effective out $2.400FastToken share0.2%
- Not used in Nitro routing:Why these endpoints are not used
- Effective in $0.00885 / Effective out $0.249FlexToken share1.1%
- Effective in $0.01044 / Effective out $0.232FlexToken share0.3%
- Effective in $0.00568 / Effective out $0.237FlexToken share0.5%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
P50, best across providers
P50, best provider
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Availability over the last 3 days
Last 72 hoursAvailability over the last 24 hours
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (High) Intelligence Index | 28.6 |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (High) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 28.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (High) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 38.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (High) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 38.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) HLE | 39.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) AA-LCR | 84.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) GDPval-AA | 55.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) CritPt | 14.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) SciCode | 51.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Max) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 26.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) Intelligence Index | 18.5 |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) HLE | 11.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR | 57.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) CritPt | 0.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) SciCode | 38.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 9.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 21.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 74.7% |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Agents Arena Spreadsheet Elo | 1286 |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Models Arena 3D Elo | 1341 |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Models Arena Asciiart Elo | 1232 |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Models Arena Code Categories Elo | 1286 |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Models Arena Data Visualization Elo | 1260 |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Models Arena Game Development Elo | 1250 |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Models Arena SVG Elo | 1244 |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Models Arena UI Component Elo | 1286 |
| Design Arena | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1017) Models Arena Website Elo | 1294 |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Access to Justice Benchmark | 73.1% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Code Migration v1.1 | 67.5% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 CyberOffense | 54.8% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 EMB v1.1 | 69.2% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Finance Agent v2.1 | 62.9% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Vals Finance Index | 60.9% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 HLAB-Vals-1.1 | 14.2% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Vals Legal Index | 71.9% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Legal Research Bench | 45.2% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Tax Agent Bench | 44.4% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 31.8% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Vals Index | 61.3% |
| Vals AI | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 87.7% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash versions
Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs
Documentation
Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (nitro) on OpenRouter.
Frequently asked questions
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the deepseek-flash API model name. V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture.
The DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 documentation on OpenRouter includes the Best OCR Model for Scanned Documents, Measured blog post, the Build an AI Code Reviewer with OpenRouter blog post, the Open-Weight vs Closed-Weight Models: What's the Difference? blog post, the How to Extract Tables from a PDF with an LLM blog post, and the Does DeepSeek V4 Have Vision? blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.038/M input tokens and $0.50/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.01/M tokens.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 1,048,576 completion tokens.
Yes. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 accepts text and images as input and returns text.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is served by 38 providers on OpenRouter: Particle AI, Wafer, Prime Intellect, Open Inference, Sail Research, Ionstream, DeepInfra, inference.net and 30 more. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was released on October 17, 2026.