Deepseek V4.1 Flash API Pricing

These are the tracked rates, not a live quote. Hosted-provider choice, region, long-context tiers, caching, batch discounts, and temporary promotions can change the actual bill. Open-weight availability does not mean hosted inference is free. Workload examples assume the listed standard input and output rates, with no cache hits or discounts.

DeepSeek pricing catalog — check current offerings and rate tiers. This catalog may not list historical models or third-party hosted endpoints.

Publisher-reported pricing notes

• Peak and off-peak API prices differ; the stored prices use peak rates.
• The original checkpoint is no longer served by the current deepseek-flash alias; retained hosted prices describe its historical peak rates.

Official release and model references

These references document the model and its release; not every reference is a pricing table. Confirm the applicable endpoint and billing tier with your inference provider before purchase.

• api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260910/
• api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
• huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
• api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/

Computed straight from the list prices above — token counts are illustrative workload sizes, not measurements of Deepseek V4.1 Flash.

In AI IQ's scoring, Deepseek V4.1 Flash's list price is adjusted by a token-usage multiplier of 1.232 (measured from real benchmark runs), giving an effective cost of $1.85 per 1M input + output tokens. That places it #57 of 155 models on the effective-cost ranking (lower is cheaper). Some models spend far more tokens than others on the same task, so effective cost compares what a unit of work really costs. Method details are on the methodology page; see all models on the cost charts and the falling cost of intelligence over time.

Models with a lower effective cost that score within a few IQ points of Deepseek V4.1 Flash (IQ 126), or better.