DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cuts input price by roughly 93%
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash input pricing has dropped from $0.3 to $0.0198 per 1M tokens, a cut of roughly 93%. Output pricing fell from $1.2 to $0.396 per 1M tokens, around a 67% cut. The new rates are listed on OpenRouter's models endpoint.
What it means for a SaaS brand
Cheaper inference makes it viable to run far more AI-search visibility checks, so widen your prompt set and test more query variations and competitor comparisons per run rather than sampling a handful. If you build product features on this model, the input cut in particular favours passing fuller context, such as complete docs pages, instead of trimmed extracts.
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