Pricing°
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash input price up, output price down
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash input pricing moved from $0.012563 to $0.03345 per 1M tokens, roughly a 2.7x increase. Output pricing fell from $1.32 to $1.20 per 1M tokens. The listing is via OpenRouter's models API.
Pricing6 Oct 2026DeepSeek
What it means for a SaaS brand
If you run brand visibility checks or large retrieval-heavy prompts on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, the cost shifts towards the prompt side, so long context stuffing gets more expensive while long generated answers get slightly cheaper. Re-check the monthly cost of any scheduled AI search monitoring that sends big inputs on this model.
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