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Pick two to five models. Every cell comes from a verified record; anything unverified says so. There is no overall winner — the right choice depends on your task, budget and technical needs.
| Criterion | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | DeepSeek-V4-Pro | deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner API names deprecation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | DeepSeek |
| Release date | Sep 10, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | Apr 24, 2026 |
| Status | Generally available Updated | Generally available | Deprecated Deprecated |
| Purpose | Fast / lightweight | Flagship | Reasoning |
| Inputs → outputs | text, image → text | text → text | text → text |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens | Not documented |
| API input price | $0.30 per 1M tokens | $1.32 per 1M tokens | Not verified |
| API output price | $1.20 per 1M tokens | $3.96 per 1M tokens | Not verified |
| Example: 1,000,000 in + 200,000 out tokens | $0.54 | $2.11 | Cannot calculate — rate not verified |
| Licence | proprietary | proprietary | proprietary |
| Last verified | Oct 19, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 |
The example cost multiplies the published per-1M-token list prices by the token counts above. It ignores caching, batch discounts, long-context surcharges and tax, and is shown only when both rates are verified.
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