# Deepseek’s V4.1-Flash-1017 Outscores Larger Models on Agentic Benchmarks While Dropping Per-Task Costs Once More

About twenty cents. Deepseek's own chart puts the cost of its new Flash model completing a single task on the DeepSWE coding benchmark at roughly that figure. On the same chart, competing models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic range from $2 to more than $10 per task.That figure is the main selling

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| Published | 18 October 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/deepseeks-v4-1-flash-1017-outscores-larger-models-on-agentic-benchmarks-while-dropping-per-task-costs-once-more/