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| Attribute | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | GPT Image 2gpt-image-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | — |
| Output | $0.50 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Cache Read | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | Not applicable |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | — |
| Request | — | — | $0.04 / request |
| Billing | — | — | Pay Per Request |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 272K |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | No |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | No |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | No |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI | |
| Category | chat | chat | image |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay Per Request |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | 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. | GPT Image 2 combines OpenAI's GPT-5.4 with advanced image generation capabilities from GPT Image 2, enabling fully integrated multimodal workflows. It allows users to seamlessly transition between reasoning, coding, and visual generation within a single interaction, making it well suited for creative, development, and agent-driven applications that require both intelligence and visual output. |