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API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
—$0.75
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
—$3.75
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again.
—$0.075
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page.
$0.15DeepSeek$0.375Google
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input.
$0.60DeepSeek$1.875Google
$60.00DeepSeek$338Google list price
Benchmarks
DeepSWE 1.1Agentic coding — Artificial Analysis' independent test of deep, agentic software-engineering work — the AI has to plan and carry out substantial coding tasks end to end. (Version 1.1 of the test.) Higher is better.
77%49%
Overview
CompanyDeepSeekGoogle
Release dateOct 17 2026Jul 21 2026
AccessOpen WeightClosed
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Frequently asked questions

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 leads Gemini 3.6 Flash on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (DeepSWE 1.1). Only Gemini 3.6 Flash has a verified first-party API price: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. Gemini 3.6 Flash shipped 88 days before DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is open weight, while Gemini 3.6 Flash is closed.

On DeepSWE 1.1, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 leads at 77% vs Gemini 3.6 Flash at 49%.