DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017: Cheaper AI Agents, Bigger Claims — What We Can Actually Verify

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The headline numbers: DeepSWE coding benchmark: 77. 0% at an average cost of just under $0. 20 per task (top setting); ~72% at ~$0. 10 (low setting) The predecessor scored 74. 2% at ~$0. 50 per task — so the claim is +3 points of accuracy at less than half the cost per task In DeepSeek's comparison table, the new model beats Kimi K3 on 10 of 11 tests and GPT-5.

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