Pricing°
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash input price cut, output unchanged
DeepSeek has lowered the input price of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash from $0.0495 to $0.04345 per 1M tokens, as listed on OpenRouter. Output pricing is unchanged at $1.32 per 1M tokens. The cut applies only to the input side, so the gap between input and output cost widens further.
Pricing6 Oct 2026DeepSeek
What it means for a SaaS brand
Cheaper input tokens make long-context retrieval passes less costly, so tools built on this model can afford to pull in more source pages per answer. Brands with thorough, well-structured documentation get more of it read rather than skimmed.
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