DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 scores 45 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, improving on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by 6 points, and is the equal #2 open-weights model
@deepseek_ai has released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, an update on their flagship model DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. On the first-party API, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is priced at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens during peak hours, with off-peak pricing half of peak rates, the same pricing as DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
Key results:
➤ DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 makes gains in agentic capabilities, knowledge and scientific reasoning. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017’s Elo rating on GDPval-AA v2.1 is 1746, an increase of 146 points from DeepSeek V4.1 Flash’s rating of 1600. On AA-Briefcase v1.1, its Elo rating increases by 150 points from 1420 to 1570. On AA-Omniscience, its non-hallucination rate is 33%, a 29-point improvement from DeepSeek V4.1 Flash’s 4%, while seeing an improvement in accuracy from 43% to 46%, pushing its overall AA-Omniscience Index score from -5 to +5. On CritPt, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 scores 24%, up from 14% for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
➤ DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is now the #2 open-weights model alongside GLM-5.3. With a score of 45 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is behind MiMo-V2.6-Pro by only 1 point and ahead of other open-source models like Step 5 Preview and Kimi K3 (both at 44).
➤ With a Cost per Task of $0.26, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 sits in the most attractive quadrant of Capability vs. Cost. With a Cost per Task of $0.26 and Intelligence Index score of 45, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 compares favorably to GLM-5.3-Flash at $0.28 per task and a score of 42. At the same time, MiMo-V2.6-Pro (46) at $0.13 per task and GPT-6.1 Sol (medium, 48) at $0.21 per task both offer higher capability at a lower Cost per Task.
Additional model details:
➤ Context window: 1M tokens (equivalent to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash)
➤ Pricing: $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, unchanged from DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Cache hit price of $0.006 per 1M tokens, a 98% discount
➤ Size: 552B total parameters (16B active)
➤ License: MIT
➤ Providers: Available through DeepSeek’s first-party API, @FireworksAI_HQ , @baseten, @DeepInfra , @wafer_ai , @Cloudflare and others