DeepSeek V4.1 Flash becomes everyone's 3D studio at up to 26x lower cost
量子位 · wechat · 2026-10-18
QbitAI compiles community tests of the newly released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: a Tesla-style flying car with frame-by-frame physical accuracy, a hyper-detailed bee on a sunflower, rocket launch pads, electric motor cutaway animations, and floating-island fantasy scenes.
- Rocket scene: DeepSeek took 3 min / $0.78 vs GPT-6.1 Sol's 5 min / $6.10 (8x cheaper)
- Interactive 3D cartoon character: Opus 5.5 finished in 20 min for $6; DeepSeek took 1 hour at $0.23 (26x cheaper); motor animation $1.25 vs $16.36 (13x)
- One user processed a 1M-token task in a single DeepSeek Harness interaction; another reported $0.44 API cost, 90% below the competitor
Consensus: Opus/GPT are faster and more polished, but DeepSeek's near-par quality at these prices is remarkable.
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