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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Weights available

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash weights published by DeepSeek in its Hugging Face organization (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash). Self-hosting costs and serving limits depend on your deployment.

Access details: DeepSeek open weights (Hugging Face)

The Hugging Face repository. Download the weights and run them yourself or with a host.

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

Also on the DeepSeek API as deepseek-flash

Updated Oct 1, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
1M
Maximum output
Not published
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
Structured output
Not published

Hosted price

USD / 1M tokens
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20

What DeepSeek charges for deepseek-flash, its API version of this model.

Free to download. Running the weights costs whatever your hardware or host charges.

Price history
Oct 1, 2026

Input Not applicable per million tokens

Oct 1, 2026

Output Not applicable per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
552B
Active parameters
8B per token in prefill, 16B in decode
Architecture
Mixture-of-Experts with a Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture
Input modalities
Text, image
Output modalities
Text

License

MIT

How they describe it

a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 552B backbone parameters and support for contexts of up to one million tokens

What they say is new

More intelligence, less cost.

Release & lifecycle

Published
Sep 10, 2026
available
As of Oct 1, 2026

Considering a switch?

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Prices and availability as of October 20, 2026. DeepSeek's own pages have the latest.