one chat reply3,000 tokens in, 500 outDeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs 2.6× as much as Beam
$0.00058
$0.0015
summarise a 100-page report50,000 tokens in, 1,500 out, one requestDeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs 2.5× as much as Beam
$0.0069
$0.02
1,000 classification calls500 tokens in, 20 out, per call
$0.07
$0.17
coding-agent session2M tokens in across ~60 turns, 60,000 out, no cache
$0.27
$0.67
at listed rates. token counts are typical sizes, not measurements.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash pricing notes
the listed price is DeepSeek's peak rate. DeepSeek's own api charges half outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays; other serving providers bill the peak rate.
cache hits bill $0.006 per 1M on some serving providers and $0.03 per 1M on others.
the first open-weights model from Reflection, a 501B-total, 23B-active mixture-of-experts built for agentic tool use, coding and general reasoning. it reads text only and its weights ship under Apache 2.0.
pick it if
you want a long-window text model priced with the flash tier
you want Apache 2.0 weights, with BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 builds to self-host
you run tool-calling agents on text and repeat long prompts, so cached input matters
skip it if
you need image, audio or video input; Beam reads text only
long autonomous coding is the job; its reported DeepSWE v1.1 score sits below GLM-5.3 Flash and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is DeepSeek's open-weight mixture-of-experts model that reads text and images with a 1M-token context. it replaced V4 Flash behind DeepSeek's own deepseek-flash route and costs less than V4 Flash here.
pick it if
you want the cheapest DeepSeek model here, and the only one with image input
you need long replies: DeepSeek's api allows up to 384K output tokens
you want MIT-licensed weights you can self-host
skip it if
you need video or audio input; it takes text and images only
faq
which is better, Beam or DeepSeek V4.1 Flash?
on Terminal Bench 2.1, as each maker reports it, Beam scores 80.1% and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 90.6. these are each maker's own numbers, not a controlled head-to-head; the spec table lists every benchmark both publish.
which is cheaper, Beam or DeepSeek V4.1 Flash?
Beam lists lower input and output prices. on a coding-agent session (2M tokens in, 60,000 out) Beam costs $0.27 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.67.
which one accepts images?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supports vision; Beam does not.
can i switch between Beam and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash mid-task?
yes. in an octomind session, /model octohub:beam and /model octohub:deepseek-v4.1-flash switch models without losing the conversation, so you can draft on one and review on the other.
try either model
switch between models inside the same octomind session.