Which LLM is the cheapest for our workload?

The best-for pages rank the live catalogue per task by the index that measures it, and the router picks the cheapest model that meets your quality rule for each request.

How much can we save on our LLM bill?

On the public benchmark the router saved 89% against sending everything to the reference model. Import last month's provider bill on the bill page and the estimate is computed on your own traffic before you change a line of code.

How often do model prices change?

The catalogue is refreshed from the vendors' price lists; each model page shows the date of its data.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 by DeepSeek: pricing, context window and specs - OpenSmartRoute

Model catalogue

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017Catalogue: Indexed in the reference catalogue; nothing on this deployment answers as this model yet.

JSON

Specification

Published by the vendor; the platform bills at the target's declared price.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

reasoning open weights tools

DeepSeek deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the `deepseek-flash` API model name. V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model...

Input $/1M

Alternatives, and where the router puts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 earns a request when it needs step-by-step reasoning, tool calls, very long inputs; a short, general request would go to MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free) instead - free per million input tokens against $0.15 here; and the hardest requests, where the quality floor rules it out, to Claude Opus 5.5 (batch). Your rules decide the floor; the trace shows the comparison for every request.

Cheaper alternatives

Lower input price and an intelligence index within 5 points.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 head to head

On this deployment

Nothing on this deployment answers as this model yet. Connect your own provider under Model providers, or add a target to your catalogue - the router picks it up without retraining.

Not available here yet

Signed in, add the model under Model providers; self-hosting, add a target with metadata.model set to this id.

targets.yamlyaml

# targets.yaml - declare a target that runs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
targets:
  - id: deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017
    kind: llm
    name: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
    metadata:
      model: deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017          # links the target to this catalogue entry
    capabilities:
      domains: [general]
      supports_tools: true
      context_window: 1048576
    cost:
      usd_per_1k_tokens: 0.000375

Price among DeepSeek models

Input list price per million tokens; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the 8th cheapest of 13 listed.

List price is where the decision starts

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 earns a request when it beats the field on your objective, not on the vendor's page.

The specification above is what DeepSeek publishes. What the router uses is the price you actually pay here, the latency measured on this deployment and the outcomes people reported - and it compares those against every other model that could take the request. Price a workload on the estimator, or send one live in the playground.

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For the business

What it means for which models you pay for.

Catalogue of every vendor
The right model, not the famous one
Price, context, abilities and benchmark indexes side by side, with the model that fits each task named.
The rankings
89% less
Lower cost per request
On the 150-prompt benchmark the router spent 89% less than sending every prompt to the reference model, and the judged quality went up, not down.
Read the benchmark
Per million tokens, every model
Prices you can compare

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Specification

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Alternatives, and where the router puts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Cheaper alternatives

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 head to head

On this deployment

Price among DeepSeek models

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 earns a request when it beats the field on your objective, not on the vendor's page.

What it means for which models you pay for.

The right model, not the famous one

Lower cost per request

Prices you can compare

Better alternatives

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