Same DeepSeek, Different Price Everywhere — Running V4.1 Flash 1017 Cheaply, and a Head-to-Head with the Previous VersionDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is an open-weight model — the model files themselves are public. That is why more than 25 companies sell the same model at very different prices and speeds. Here are the cheapest times and services to use it, plus our own head-to-head against the previous version (browser tasks 206 vs 207, maze 23/23 vs 22/23).
Dante (Quokka Labs)Oct 22, 2026 
