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#12ASep 30, 2026Evidence B

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

DeepSeek · Undisclosed (MoE, ~8B active)

The nail that sells document skill for ¥0.6

DeepSeek’s first low-cost general-purpose native multimodal model, positioned very differently from the layout-only DeepSeek-OCR 2. Composite 87.9 with documents 95 and charts 92 — near-flagship document skill at ¥0.6/1M output tokens, dominating five models on this board that cost more than ten times as much.

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Last updated Oct 18, 2026Editorial scoring

Bottom line

This is the anchor of the October 2026 value board: any large-input, structured-output document pipeline should baseline on it before deciding whether a flagship’s extra points justify the price gap. Its limits are equally clear — video 78, generation 72, GUI 85 — so do not use it for video QA or creative work. The MIT licence is its edge over Qwen3.8-Flash: commercial use with no strings.

Eight-dimension breakdown

editorial mapping · 0–100
Perception90Document95Chart QA92Video78Agent85Generation72Chinese86Ecosystem958D
  • DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash87.9
Visual perception & grounding20%
90
Document parsing & Chinese OCR18%
95
Chart & document reasoning14%
92
Video & long-horizon reasoning14%
78
GUI agents & tool use14%
85
Generation & editing6%
72
Chinese context & culture6%
86
Ecosystem, cost & availability8%
95

Weights: perception 20 / documents 18 / charts 14 / video 14 / agents 14 / generation 6 / Chinese 6 / ecosystem 8. Definitions and sources on the methodology page.

Public benchmarks

as reported, not converted
Benchmark / metricValueNote
OmniDocBench v1.50.104Edit distance, near flagship
输出单价¥0.6Lowest generalist price here
ChartQA88.1Official claim

Public scores come from different versions and prompts and are not interchangeable with our composite; they are one evidence input.

Scenario mapping

five stress tests, one scale
ScenarioScoreObservation
Chinese receipt OCR95 · Handwriting weaker; print excellent
Chart data extraction92 · Far ahead of its price class
30-min video QA74 · Coarse summaries only
Mobile GUI control82 · Usable coordinates, average planning
Chinese cultural context86 · Factual; weak on everyday context

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Documents 95 at ¥0.6/1M output tokens — the outermost point on our price-performance frontier.
  • MIT open weights with zero commercial strings — the most permissive licence among the four new models.
  • Short reasoning traces and low time-to-first-token give visibly better throughput on batch document jobs.

Limitations

  • Video timing at 78 is among the lowest here; long video supports only coarse summaries.
  • Generation and editing at 72 — effectively no usable text-to-image or Chinese glyph rendering.
  • 128K context is small by 2026 standards; whole manuals still need chunking.

Price and real cost

List price

¥0.6/M tokens

≈ ¥0.6 / 1M output tokens. For 1,000 images at 1,024px, ~1,100 image tokens each and 300 output tokens, the monthly cost is about ¥0.4 (assuming input at 25% of output price).

Use your volume

About DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

Is DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash open source?

Licence: Open weights (MIT). Weights are available, but check the exact terms and filing requirements before commercial use.

How much does DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash cost?

≈ ¥0.6 / 1M output tokens. It ranks #12 with a composite of 87.9. Real bills depend on resolution, tiling, caching and volume discounts.

What is DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash best for?

High-volume receipt, contract and scan structuring; Cost baseline and control group for document pipelines; Commercial on-prem work that needs an MIT licence。

Why does DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash score 87.9?

The composite weights eight dimensions: perception 20%, documents 18%, charts 14%, video 14%, agents 14%, generation 6%, Chinese 6%, ecosystem 8%. Its strongest dimension is Document parsing & Chinese OCR; its weakest is Generation & editing.

Personal ranking · Not an official score

Every ranking, score and comparison on this page is an independent personal ranking, not an official score, and represents no vendor, institution or regulator. Scores are a subjective mapping of public evidence under our own weights — change the weights and the order changes. Disagree, or spotted a factual error? Contact the site owner: jizhi2024@foxmail.com — we check each report and log corrections in the changelog.