DeepSeek-R1 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek-R1 (DeepSeek-AI) against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek-AI).

DeepSeek-R1

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Olympiad mathematics, logic verification, and autonomous thinking chains.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 240B parameters

Real-time production inference, high-concurrency coding agents, sub-220ms time-to-first-token, and cost-optimized long-context parsing.