$ diff deepseek-v4-1-flash grok-4-6
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash vs Grok 4.6
Values come from DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and Grok 4.6, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
DeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1-Flash
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $0.15
- $/M out
- $0.6
- context
- 500K
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $2
- $/M out
- $6
What actually differs
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flash takes 1M against 500K — 2× more room in a single request.
- Input price
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flash at $0.15/M against $2/M — 13.3× cheaper to feed. Standard rates: one of these labs also quotes a lower cached-input tier, which applies only when a prefix is reused — see the full spec below.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flash at $0.6/M against $6/M — 10.0× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Weights
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flash publishes weights (MIT (open-weight)); Grok 4.6 is API-only. That decides self-hosting, air-gapped deployment and fine-tuning before any capability question does.
- Recency
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flash shipped 34 days after Grok 4.6 (2026-09-10 vs 2026-08-07).
Full spec
| Attribute | DeepSeek V4.1-Flash | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Released | 2026-09-10 | 2026-08-07 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 500,000 tokens |
| Pricing | $0.15/M input (cache miss) · $0.003/M input (cache hit) · $0.60/M output, off-peak; peak rates double — see Pricing | $2/M input · $6/M output; a request reaching 200K tokens re-prices in full at $4.00/M input · $1.00/M cached input · $12.00/M output |
| License | MIT (open-weight) | proprietary |
| Availability | DeepSeek API, Hugging Face (`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash`) | API |