$ diff deepseek-v4-1-flash inkling
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash vs Inkling
Values come from DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and Inkling, 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
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- —
- $/M out
- —
What actually differs
- Context window
- Identical — both accept 1M tokens, so context length is not a reason to pick either.
- Weights
- Both publish weights — DeepSeek V4.1-Flash under MIT (open-weight), Inkling under Apache 2.0 (open-weight). Check the licences rather than assuming they permit the same commercial use.
- Recency
- DeepSeek V4.1-Flash shipped 57 days after Inkling (2026-09-10 vs 2026-07-15).
Full spec
| Attribute | DeepSeek V4.1-Flash | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | DeepSeek | Thinking Machines |
| Released | 2026-09-10 | 2026-07-15 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 1M |
| Pricing | $0.15/M input (cache miss) · $0.003/M input (cache hit) · $0.60/M output, off-peak; peak rates double — see Pricing | not recorded |
| License | MIT (open-weight) | Apache 2.0 (open-weight) |
| Availability | DeepSeek API, Hugging Face (`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash`) | Hugging Face (BF16 and NVFP4), Tinker (fine-tuning), SGLang, vLLM, llama.cpp, Unsloth |