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DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, claiming better agentic results at lower cost per task

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DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, which it says scores 77.0 on DeepSWE versus 74.2 for the prior version and above Claude Opus 5's 74.0.

The source puts the cost at roughly $0.20 per task against about $12 for Opus 5, and says the model trails Opus 5 on HLE, Terminal-Bench, ProgramBench, NL2Repo, and the visual benchmarks.

Pricing is $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens at peak, half off-peak.

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- Strong on agentic tasks, better and cheaper per task: higher scores with shorter outputs. On DeepSWE it gets 77.0 versus 74.2 before, and beats Opus 5's 74.0, at roughly $0.20 per task against ~$12 for Opus 5.

- Beats Opus 5 on four benchmarks: DeepSWE, AutomationBench, Agents' Last Exam and Apex. It trails Opus 5 on HLE, Terminal-Bench, ProgramBench, NL2Repo and the visual benchmarks.

- The model: a mixture of experts with 552B parameters plus 196B of Engram memory (~763B total), only 8B active during prefill and 16B during decode. 1M context.

- Tiny memory per token: KV cache stored at 4-bit, about 890 bytes per token, roughly a quarter of V4-Flash.

- Price: $0.30 per million tokens in and $1.20 out at peak, half off-peak.

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🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here! Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the previous version—a Pareto improvement in performance and cost. Now live on our website, app, and API. 🛠️ Optimized for @DeepSeekHarness, Tencent CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, and more. Upgrade to DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-rc.1 or later for the best experience with the new model. 1/4
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