DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and what to use instead
For summarising documents cheaply, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 scores – and costs $1.56 per 1,000 summaries. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Cheaper at similar quality
At least 30% cheaper and within 5 points.
Nothing we track fits this today.
Better at a similar price
At least 5 points stronger and no more than 20% dearer.
Nothing we track fits this today.
Open weights you can host
Ranked by value: quality for the money.
Nothing we track fits this today.
Scores are provisional (Arena and Epoch AI) and prices are list prices. Rankings never take money into account. Thresholds are in the methodology.