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| Attribute | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 | Whisper 1whisper-1 | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.10 / 1M | $75.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $0.50 / 1M | $75.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.10 / 1M | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.10 / 1M | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.10 / 1M | Not applicable | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | N/A | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | No | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | No | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI | |
| Category | chat | voice | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| 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. | Whisper (whisper-1) is OpenAI's open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, designed for audio transcription and translation. It supports 50+ languages and processes audio files up to 25 MB, accepting formats such as mp3, mp4, wav, and webm. Optimized for reliable speech-to-text conversion across diverse audio inputs, Whisper is priced per minute of audio, billed to the nearest second, making it well suited for transcription, localization, and voice-driven applications. | 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. |