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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: input price up 16x, output price down 45%
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash input pricing moved from $0.003 to $0.0495 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter. Output pricing fell in the other direction, from $2.4 to $1.32 per 1M tokens. The model is now cheaper to generate from but considerably more expensive to feed.
Pricing6 Oct 2026DeepSeek
What it means for a SaaS brand
If you run retrieval-heavy jobs on V4.1 Flash, stuffing long context into every call now costs far more, so tighten what you pass in and lean on the cheaper output side. Rerun your cost estimates this week before scaling any batch work for content or answer monitoring.
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