Compare DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 from DeepSeek and Grok 4.5 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Grok 4.5The official latest version of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has been upgraded to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. API usage and pricing remain unchanged—you can still access the latest model using deepseek-flash.
Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: $0.31/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 accepts 1,000,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 393,216 tokens on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at 131.0 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 17.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 accepts text and image input; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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