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| Attribute | DeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek-v4-flash | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.14 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $0.28 / 1M | $0.50 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.14 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.14 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.14 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1.0M | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 284B total parameters and 13B activated per token, designed for fast inference and high-throughput workloads. It supports a 1M-token context window, enabling large-scale reasoning and long-context processing. Built with hybrid attention for efficiency, the model maintains strong performance in reasoning and coding while offering configurable reasoning modes. It is well suited for coding assistants, chat systems, and agent workflows where responsiveness and cost efficiency are critical. | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek’s cost-efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, built on its innovative Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. Featuring 552B total parameters with 8B activated for input and 16B for output, it combines efficient inference with native multimodal understanding through jointly trained text and visual representations. Optimized for coding, terminal and computer-use agents, and long-horizon workflows, the model introduces compressed KV caching that reduces cache memory usage to approximately one-quarter of the previous Flash generation. DeepSeek reports that it surpasses V4 Pro in performance, inference speed, and task completion time, making it well suited for cost-efficient autonomous agents, complex software engineering, and long-context analysis. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. |