DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging)

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek-AI) against DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging) (DeepSeek AI).

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 552B parameters

High-throughput software engineering, autonomous coding loops, terminal agents, 1M long-context retrieval, and low-cost production inference.

DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging)

Developed by DeepSeek AI · 1.8 Trillion (Sparse MoE) parameters

Autonomous coding agents scoring 81.4% on SWE-bench Verified, zero-telemetry self-hosting, sub-cent 1M-token processing, and formal mathematical proofs.

Metric DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging)
SWE-bench Verified 67.2% 81.4%
MMLU-Pro 78.4% 87.5%
MATH-500 92.6% 96.8%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.06 $0.12
Output Pricing (per 1M) $0.22 $0.48