DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Summary
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) is a multimodal, open-weights LLM with 552B total parameters (16B active), 1M token context, and 230 tokens/s. It scores 45 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and costs around $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, with open weights on Hugging Face under MIT license. The article highlights its performance, verbosity, and self-hosting availability, making it relevant for benchmarking and SMB AI deployments.