DeepSeek V4.1 Flash tops Vals open-source index at $0.30 per run
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ranks first among open-weight models on the Vals Index, beating Kimi K3 while costing only $0.30 per run — roughly 1/20 the price of competitors like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3.
2026-09-11 ~ 2026-09-11 · 2 related posts
- Episode 1: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Opens Limited Internal Beta with New Architecture and Native Multimodality(2026-09-08, 18 posts)
- Episode 2: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Tested: Blazing 350 Tokens/s but Still Experimental(2026-09-08, 2 posts)
- Episode 3: DeepSeek cuts V4-Flash API prices with new peak/off-peak billing from Sept 10(2026-09-08, 6 posts)
- Episode 4: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Nears Frontier Models at a Fraction of the Cost, Independent Tests Show(2026-09-09, 15 posts)
- Episode 5: DeepSeek Releases Open-Source V4.1 Flash, Beating Its Own Flagship at a Fraction of the Cost(2026-09-09, 57 posts)
- Episode 6: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Leaks: 552B Asymmetric MoE Claimed to Rival GPT-5.6 Sol(2026-09-10, 21 posts)
- Episode 7: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Benchmark Results Leak, Sparking Community Discussion(2026-09-10, 2 posts)
- Episode 8: DeepSeek Shrinks Per-Token KV Cache 54x in Nine Months to Sub-KB Levels(2026-09-10, 6 posts)
- Episode 9: Leaked DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Touted as New Open-Source King(2026-09-10, 3 posts)
- Episode 10: Bug Hunt Bench Ranks Frontier Coding Models on 105 Real Bugs(2026-09-10, 13 posts)
- Episode 11: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Confirmed to Center on YOCO Architecture(2026-09-10, 7 posts)
- Episode 12: Leaked DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Tech Report Reveals KV Cache-Obsessed Flagship(2026-09-11, 44 posts)
- Episode 13: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash tops Vals open-source index at $0.30 per run(2026-09-11, 2 posts)
- Episode 14: DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash: 552B backbone, 1M-token context(2026-09-11, 5 posts)
- Episode 15: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 40 in AA index despite rising hallucinations(2026-09-11, 2 posts)
- Episode 16: Inside KV-Cache Sharing: How DeepSeek CED and GLM 5.2 Differ(2026-09-11, 4 posts)
- Episode 17: DeepSeek 4.1 Flash Shows Big Gains in Kernel Engineering and Cost(2026-09-11, 2 posts)
- Episode 18: SGLang delivers Day 0 support for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, hitting 873 tok/s(2026-09-12, 2 posts)
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash tops Vals open-weight index at $0.30 per test, with the smallest skills gap — teortaxesTex · 2026-09-11
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