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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
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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. 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 Exp Opens 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 Pro Opens in new tab on performance, speed, and task completion time.
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In / Out Price
$0.15 / $0.60 per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Oct 17, 2026
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
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Providers
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.
Reasoning effort All Latency / throughput P50
| Provider | Input/M | Output/M | Cache read/M | Latency | Throughput | Uptime |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DeepSeek | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.003 | 1.25 s | 156 tps | 100.00% |
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.
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).
Throughput
156 tok/s
P50, best across providers
Latency
1.25 s
P50, best provider
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Reasoning effort All 3 days
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.
Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
99.72%
Availability over the last 3 days
Last 72 hours
Availability 99.72%
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Availability over the last 24 hours
OpenRouter Availability
99.70%
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 theEndpoints API. Learn more about ourload balancing and provider routing options.
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7K tokens
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
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DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash versions
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Documentation
Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on OpenRouter.
Frequently asked questions
What is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017?
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.
Where is the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 documentation?
The DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 documentation on OpenRouter includes the Does DeepSeek V4 Have Vision? blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.
How much does DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 cost?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.15/M input tokens and $0.60/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.003/M tokens.
What is the context length of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 393,216 completion tokens.
Does DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 support tool calling and structured outputs?
Yes. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It supports response_format for JSON output, without JSON-schema enforcement.
What inputs and outputs does DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 support?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 accepts text and images as input and returns text.
What other text models does DeepSeek have?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and 10 more are other text models from DeepSeek.
When was DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 released?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 was released on October 17, 2026.
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