DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs DeepSeek-R1

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

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.

DeepSeek-R1

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Olympiad mathematics, logic verification, and autonomous thinking chains.