DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Price

Input

$0.3 per 1M tokens

Output

$1.2 per 1M tokens

Notes

Peak-hour list price (cache miss). Off-peak is half: $0.15 in / $0.60 out. Peak hours 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Mon-Fri excluding Chinese public holidays. Cache-hit input $0.006 peak.

Source

DeepSeek pricing , last verified October 8, 2026

No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

Model

Context

1M (1,000,000 tokens)

Max output

384,000 tokens

Modality

Text and image

Input

text, image

Output

text

Weights

Open weights

Released

September 10, 2026

Tags

open-weights, reasoning, coding, vision, long-context, low-cost

Docs

Provider documentation

Data policy

Prompts go to

DeepSeek (People's Republic of China)

Retention

Privacy policy: personal data stored in the PRC and kept as long as necessary to provide the service, may be used to train models, with a right to opt out. No API-specific retention period or ZDR offering published

Zero data retention

Not stated by the provider

Region

China (PRC)

Policy

DeepSeek data policy

Summarised from the provider's published terms. The provider's own policy is what applies.

Call it with any OpenAI SDK

Available when the model is live

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.safeguard.sh/v1",
    api_key="SAFEGUARD_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Base URL https://api.safeguard.sh/v1, model deepseek/deepseek-flash.