DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on...

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Data source

Only tracked on Vercel AI Gateway.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash usage over time

Vercel AI Gateway share of tokens, by day.

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash holds 1.01% today, down from 13.82% at the start of the visible window.

Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-11 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/deepseek-deepseek-v4-1-flash

Rank history

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-11 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/deepseek-deepseek-v4-1-flash

Adoption curve vs the pantheon

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's share plotted against days since first tracked, overlaid on other current leaders on the same axis. The question every new-model page asks: is this one going to make it?

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-09-11 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/deepseek-deepseek-v4-1-flash

Citable stat

As of 2026-09-11, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash holds 39.9% of Vercel AI Gateway token share, up 39.92pp over 30 days. Source: Tidelines (Vercel AI Gateway).

Where to run it

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash pricing by provider

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is served by 8 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $0.60 per million tokens from DeepInfra, and the most expensive is $1.20 from DeepSeek. The largest context window offered is 1049k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContextUptime
DeepInfra$0.20$0.601049k95.64%
Fireworks$0.22$0.661049k99.18%
SiliconFlow$0.30$1.201049k99.70%
GMICloud$0.30$1.201049k99.92%
Morph$0.30$1.201049k99.08%
Io Net$0.30$1.20262k98.31%
Novita$0.30$1.201049k99.96%
DeepSeek$0.30$1.201049k99.96%