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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Cuts Cost While Doubling Token Window

DeepSeek rolled out V4.1 Flash 1017, a 1‑million‑token LLM that promises faster completions at a fraction of the previous price. The model appears on DeepSeek’s website, app and API as of the latest update, and it shi…

The announcement arrived alongside a pricing sheet that lists $0.15 per 1 M input tokens and $0.60 per 1 M output tokens on RunInfra. The same sheet notes a context window of 1,048,576 tokens, enough to hold an entire…

DeepSeek describes the new version as a “Pareto improvement” over its predecessor. Benchmarks show shorter outputs, higher throughput and lower latency on the same hardware. In practice, the model finishes a typical c…

The cost side is equally stark. At $0.15 per 1 M input tokens, a 10 K‑token prompt costs less than a cent. Output at $0.60 per 1 M tokens means a 2 K‑token response runs under $0.002. Those numbers undercut many OpenA…

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