DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Gemini 4 Argon

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Capability
159↓ 4%166↑
—1529
Priceper 1M tokens
Input$0.015–$0.292list $0.30-95%↓$1.80list $2.00-10%↑ ×120.0
Output$0.06–$1.168list $1.20-95%↓$9.00list $10.00-10%↑ ×150.0
Cache read$0.0003–$0.00584list $0.006-95%↓$0.09list $0.10-10%↑ ×300.0
Reasoning output—$9.00list $10.00-10%
Web searchper request$0.000732↓$0.0126list $0.014-10%↑ ×17.2
Limits and modalities
Context1M↓ 5%1M↑
Max output384K↑66K↓ 83%
ModalitiesInputTextImageOutputTextInputTextImageAudioVideoPDFOutputText
Availability
ProvidersByteDance (Volcano Engine), Tencent Cloud TokenHub, DeepSeek, Cloudflare Workers AIGoogle (Gemini), Google Vertex AI
30-day uptime——
Measured, last 30 days
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About
Released2026-10-172026-10-13
Knowledge cutoff—2026-03

Capability scores are from Epoch AI’s Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-02), which combines dozens of benchmarks with GPT-5 set at 150. epoch.ai/eci

Human preference ratings are from the LMArena Text Arena (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-10-28): Elo ratings from blind votes, on a different scale from capability scores. lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text