DeepSeek models

Each model has its own URL. Benchmark cells that had no source were removed or replaced with the figure from the linked model card.

  • DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash — Ultra-Fast Asymmetric Causal MoE with 1M Context & Engram Memory
  • DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 — Massive 1.7T Sparse MoE for Autonomous Software Engineering & Heavy Reasoning
  • DeepSeek-R1 — Pioneering Open Reasoning Model Trained via Large-Scale RL & GRPO
  • DeepSeek-V3 — The Efficiency Landmark: 671B MoE with Multi-Head Latent Attention
  • Janus-Pro — Decoupled Vision-Language Foundation Model for Unified Understanding & Generation

Models & Architecture Lineage

Compare flagship models across DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Asymmetric MoE + Engram), V4-Pro (1.7T Sparse), R1 GRPO reasoning, V3 foundation baseline, and Janus-Pro multimodal vision.

Architectural Synthesis Note: DeepSeek-R2 Integration

Hardware & Architecture Spec
Consolidation of Standalone R2 into V4 & V4.1 Frontier Lineage

TODO: not verified. The claim that a standalone R2 run was absorbed into V4/V4.1, including the Ascend 910C detail and a --effort low|medium|high CLI flag, is not in the current API pricing page or the V4.1-Flash model card. Do not treat this note as a specification.

Dynamic test-time compute allocation via the runtime 'effort' API and CLI flag without model swapping.
Dual execution modes: Asymmetric causal routing allows low latency for daily code while engaging deep multi-expert recursive reasoning when 'effort=high'.
Native support on both Hopper (H800/H100) clusters and Ascend 910C CANN-based domestic hardware topologies.
⚡ Hardware Note: Absorbed from domestic Ascend 910C/CANN cluster runs into unified V4/V4.1 weights.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

V4.1-Flash (Sep 2026)September 2026

Ultra-Fast Asymmetric Causal MoE with 1M Context & Engram Memory

552B Backbone$0.3/1M in
552B MoE backbone8B prefill / 16B decodeEngram (196B)890-byte KV cache1M contextFP4 E2M1 KVAPI: deepseek-flashVision supported

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with a 552B-parameter backbone, a Causal Encoder-Decoder that activates 8B parameters per token during prefill and 16B during decode, a 1,048,576-token context, Engram conditional memory (196B parameters), and a global KV cache of 890 bytes per token using FP4 (E2M1) caching. API model name: deepseek-flash.

Core Architecture & Hardware Specifications

MoE Backbone
552B Total / 384 Experts
Asymmetric routing activating 6 experts (8B prefill / 16B decode)
Context & KV Cache
1,048,576 Tokens
890 bytes/token footprint via FP4 E2M1 quantization
Engram Memory
196B Parameters
O(1) constant-time hashed associative memory
API price (peak)
$0.30 / $1.20
Per 1M tokens: cache-miss input / output. Cache hit $0.006. Off-peak is half.
Inference Economics & Prefix Caching
Peak cache miss $0.30 / off-peak $0.15 per 1M input. Peak cache hit $0.006 / off-peak $0.003.
Input: $0.3 / 1MCache Hit: $0.006/1M
Output: $1.2 / 1MOff-Peak: $0.6/1M

Verified Performance & Research Benchmarks

Codeforces (Rating)Flagship3,471
↳Highest rating in the model card's published comparison table (max reasoning effort)
GPQA Diamond (Pass@1)Flagship90.9%
↳Max reasoning effort, from the model card comparison table
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Pass@1)Flagship90.6%
↳Evaluated with DeepSeek Harness Minimal mode and a 1M context
HLE with tools (Pass@1)63.9%
↳This is the with-tools score. Text-only HLE on the same card is 36.8 (39.1 on the text-only subset).

Key Innovations & Capabilities

  • Asymmetric causal routing: 8B active parameters during prefill, 16B active during generation across 6 of 384 fine-grained experts.
  • Engram conditional memory: 196B parameters in constant-time O(1) hashed memory for persistent factual and codebase recall.
  • FP4 E2M1 ultra-compact KV cache: Compresses key-value state to only 890 bytes per token, making 1M token contexts computationally negligible.
  • The API supports thinking mode (on by default) and reasoning_effort values low, high, and max. The model card also describes a continuous effort setting from 1 to 100.
  • A single tokens-per-second throughput figure is not stated on the model card or the API pricing page, so none is listed here.

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813

V4-Pro (Aug 2026)August 2026

Massive 1.7T Sparse MoE for Autonomous Software Engineering & Heavy Reasoning

1.6T Total$1.32/1M in
1.6T MoE49B active1M contextAPI: deepseek-v4-proNo vision on APIOff-peak is half price

DeepSeek-V4-Pro is the 1.6T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model (49B activated) with a 1,000,000-token context, published on Hugging Face as DeepSeek-V4-Pro. The API serves checkpoint DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 as model name deepseek-v4-pro. The V4.1 model card's comparison table reports this checkpoint's benchmark scores; a separate V4.1-Pro had not launched when the 10 September 2026 API note was published.

Core Architecture & Hardware Specifications

Total Parameters
1.6 Trillion
49B activated parameters, from the DeepSeek-V4-Pro model card
Context
1M tokens
API max output 384K. Vision is not supported on this API model.
API model name
deepseek-v4-pro
Checkpoint DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
Inference Economics
$1.32 / $3.96 peak
Cache hit $0.044 peak. Off-peak output $1.98 per 1M tokens.
Inference Economics & Prefix Caching
Peak cache miss $1.32 / off-peak $0.66 per 1M input. Peak cache hit $0.044 / off-peak $0.022.
Input: $1.32 / 1MCache Hit: $0.044/1M
Output: $3.96 / 1MOff-Peak: $1.98/1M

Verified Performance & Research Benchmarks

Codeforces (Rating)Flagship3,348
↳Listed for DS-V4-Pro in the V4.1-Flash model card comparison table
GPQA Diamond (Pass@1)Flagship92.4%
↳From the same model card comparison table
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Pass@1)Flagship87.9%
↳DS-V4-Pro column on the V4.1-Flash model card

Key Innovations & Capabilities

  • 1.6 trillion total parameters and 49 billion activated parameters, from the DeepSeek-V4-Pro model card.
  • API context length 1M tokens and maximum output 384K tokens, from the Models & Pricing page.
  • Vision is not supported on deepseek-v4-pro. V4.1-Flash is the API model that lists vision.
  • Off-peak API rates are half of peak rates. Peak hours are 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, Monday–Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays.
  • An SWE-bench Verified score of 80.6% was removed: it is not in the V4.1-Flash model card comparison table or the V4-Pro model card excerpt used for this page.

DeepSeek-R1

R1 (Jan 2025 Reference)January 2025

Pioneering Open Reasoning Model Trained via Large-Scale RL & GRPO

671B Total$0.55/1M in
671B MoE37B ActiveGRPO Without CriticNative CoTMATH-500: 97.3%AIME: 79.8%Open Weights

DeepSeek-V3

V3 (Dec 2024 Baseline)December 2024

The Efficiency Landmark: 671B MoE with Multi-Head Latent Attention

671B Total$0.14/1M in
671B MoE37B ActiveMLA AttentionFP8 Mixed PrecisionAux-Loss-Free128K ContextOpen Weights

Janus-Pro

Janus-Pro (Multimodal)February 2025

Decoupled Vision-Language Foundation Model for Unified Understanding & Generation

7B / 1B Distillations$0.3/1M in
Decoupled MultimodalSigLIP-L VisionDiscrete VQ GenerationVisual ReasoningUnified ArchitectureOpen Weights

Comprehensive Frontier Benchmark Matrix

Verified research evaluations & competitive programming ratings
Model ArchitectureAIME OlympiadSWE-bench VerifiedCodeforces EloTerminal-Bench 2.1Key Milestone
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Sep 2026)Speed & Elo #1
Not on the V4.1 model card (AIME 2026 96.7% removed)Not published on the V4.1 model card3,471 (model card)90.6% Pass@1 (Harness Minimal)GPQA Diamond 90.9% · HLE with tools 63.9%
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 (Aug 2026)SWE 80.6%
Not in the sourced comparison tableRemoved (80.6% was unsourced)3,348 (V4.1 card, V4-Pro column)87.9% Pass@11.6T / 49B active · GPQA Diamond 92.4%
DeepSeek-R1 (Jan 2025)
79.8% AIME 2024 (R1 README)Removed (49.2% was unsourced)2,029 rating / 96.3 percentile (R1 README)Removed (68.5% was unsourced)MATH-500 97.3% (R1 README)
DeepSeek-V3 (Dec 2024)
Removed (39.2% was unsourced on this page)Removed (42.0% was unsourced)Removed (1,740 was unsourced)Removed (54.1% was unsourced)MMLU 88.5 · HumanEval-Mul 82.6 (V3 README)
Janus-Pro (Feb 2025)
N/A (Vision)N/AN/AN/AMMBench: 85.2% · GenEval: 0.81