DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash vs DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
763.2 B
Context
—
30d
1.5 M
mit · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
763.2 B
Context
—
30d
58 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 763.2 B 763.2 B
Architecture DeepseekV41ForCausalLM DeepseekV41ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 1,048,576
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 1,478,503 57,715
Downloads all time 2.1 M 58 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-09-10 2026-10-17
API input price / 1M tokens $0.02 $0.15
API output price / 1M tokens $1.00 $0.60
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.02 $0.75
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.015 $0.003
AA Intelligence Index 24.7 39.5
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 943,718 393,216
API providers 33 29
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash $1.02
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 $0.75

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is 1.4× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 20 days (5 Oct – 24 Oct)

1.5 M10 K
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · fp16 676.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 · fp16 676.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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