DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash vs Grok 4.3

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights

Params

763.2 B

Context

—

30d

1.5 M

mit · commercial OK

x-ai · B · API-only

Input / 1M

$1.25

Output / 1M

$2.50

AA index

24.9

proprietary · 1M context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash	Grok 4.3
Deployment	Open weights · also via API	API-only (closed weights)
Parameters	763.2 B	n/a — API-only
Architecture	DeepseekV41ForCausalLM	n/a — API-only
Context length	1,048,576	1,000,000
Licence	mit	Proprietary
Commercial use	Allowed	Per API terms
Languages	—	n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d	1,478,503	n/a — API-only
Downloads all time	2.1 M	n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	n/a — API-only
Gated	No	n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub	2026-09-10	n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens	$0.02	$1.25
API output price / 1M tokens	$1.00	$2.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens	$1.02	$3.75
Cached input / 1M tokens	$0.015	$0.20
AA Intelligence Index	24.7	24.9
AA Coding Index	—	42.2
AA Agentic Index	—	15.5
Max output tokens	943,718	900,000
API providers	33	1
Tool calling	Yes	Yes
Reasoning mode	Yes	Yes

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

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash $1.02

Grok 4.3 $3.75

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is 3.7× cheaper at list price.

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

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · fp16 676.3 GB / 24 GB

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