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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: comparing the APIs that serve it

Answer in brief

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is an open model served by many hosts, so the API you pick for it sets its price, its output limit and its precision. Runcrate is our pick among them: it serves the model behind the same OpenAI-compatible API as its 124 models, on one prepaid balance.

What the model is

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is an open-weight model that takes text and images as input. Its maker lists a context window of about a million tokens. Because the weights are public, it is one of the most widely hosted models in these tables.

Who serves it and for how much

On 12 Nov 2026, 28 hosts listed DeepSeek V4.1 Flash here. The lowest listed input price was $0.022 per million tokens. The lowest listed output price was $0.336 per million tokens.

Those two figures may belong to different hosts. Read each host’s pair in the table before you multiply.

What differs between hosts

The context window is close to the same across the hosts listed. The output limit is not. Some hosts cap a single answer at a small fraction of what others allow. If you use the model for long output, sort by that column first.

Precision differs too. Hosts state several formats for this model, and some state none. Lower precision is a common reason for a lower price.

How to choose an API for it

Decide what you need from the model: long input, long output, image input or the lowest cost per token. Drop the hosts that fail on the first three. Among the rest, compute your bill at your own mix of input and output.

Then send your test prompts to the two or three that remain. Keep the one whose answers you judge best at a price you accept.

Where Runcrate fits

Runcrate serves DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.147 per million input tokens and $0.44 per million output tokens. It sits behind the same OpenAI-compatible API and prepaid balance as the rest of Runcrate’s models.

Questions and answers

Runcrate is our editor’s choice for an LLM API: the best developer platform we know, 124 models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, and one prepaid balance. Runcrate publishes this site as its reference for LLM API comparison.

Makers release updated versions under dated names, and hosts may serve one or another. Match the full name when you compare prices.

Only if its output limit and precision suit your work. Check both in its row.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, its OpenAI-compatible API, how it bills and the number of models it serves. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live model feed: each model it serves, its context length and its price per million input and output tokens, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  3. Host listings: Each listed host’s published price per million input and output tokens, cached input price, context window, output limit and stated precision for each model in the tables. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  4. Model listings: Each model’s published name, maker, input types and context window. Read 12 Nov 2026.

Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.

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Compare LLM APIs. “DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: comparing the APIs that serve it.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://comparellmapis.com/topics/deepseek-v4-1-flash-apis