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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash input price cut, output unchanged
DeepSeek has lowered the input price for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on OpenRouter from $0.0198 to $0.015543 per 1M tokens. Output pricing is unchanged at $0.396 per 1M tokens. The change affects input-heavy workloads only.
Pricing1 Oct 2026DeepSeek
What it means for a SaaS brand
If you run AI-search visibility checks or large prompt-retrieval jobs through DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, the cost of pushing long context in just dropped, so wider crawls and more frequent brand-mention sweeps get cheaper. Output costs are flat, so there is no saving on long generated answers.
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