--- title: "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/df96103d-374e-4ebe-b9f2-b75b09e3526d" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. DeepSeek's multimodal mixture of experts model with a 552B backbone and a one million token context, built to cut KV cache cost for long input agent work. Suits teams with large GPU clusters. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a kit in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by deepseek-ai ## About ### What it is DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a multimodal mixture of experts model from DeepSeek. It reads images and text and writes text, with a 552B parameter backbone and a context of up to one million tokens. Its encoder decoder design projects the decoder's global KV cache from the final encoder states. Per token, it wakes just 8B parameters while reading input and 16B while writing, according to the card. ### Who it suits Teams with large GPU clusters who want an open model for long input agent work, and researchers who study KV cache compression. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Software | Agent developers | Run agents that read long inputs | Feed in a large codebase and ask for a plan | | Research | Efficiency researchers | Study KV cache compression | Read the technical report | | Infrastructure | Serving teams | Test hosting a huge mixture of experts model | Plan storage for about 763 GB of weights | | Document work | Analysts | Ask about images and long documents | Ask a question about a chart and a report | Skip it if you only have a single computer, because the weights take about 763 GB. ### Where to use it - A multi GPU server with the Transformers library, which the page lists - Agent tools that you connect to a copy you serve yourself - Your own storage, filled with the Hugging Face tools | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Long input agent work | Developers | Replies that use contexts of up to a million tokens | | Image and text questions | Analysts | Text answers that use both pictures and words | | Efficiency research | Researchers | A model built around cheaper KV caches | ### How to set it up - Python and the Hugging Face tools - About 763 GB of storage for the weights - A large GPU cluster 1. Install the Hugging Face hub package. 2. Download the repository files. 3. Serve them with your own inference setup, since the card text here lists no command. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash ``` ### How to use it Send text, images or both to a served copy. The card text here shows no client command, so follow the serving notes on the model page. | Tool | What it does | | --- | --- | | Causal Encoder Decoder | Splits 40 layers into a 20 layer encoder and a 20 layer decoder | | CSA2 | Gives each attention layer a Full, Reindex or Reuse mode to share KV data | | FP4 main KV caching | Stores the main KV cache in a compact 4 bit format | | Engram memory | A lookup table of 196B parameters read sparsely per token | | DSpark | Speculative decoding that schedules its checks by how sure the draft is | ### Example Paste a long report into a served copy, attach a chart image and ask for a summary of what the chart says. It should return text that uses both the report and the picture. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new to this, know that the model is far too large for a home computer. Read the model page first and start with a smaller model. If you know the field, each mixture of experts layer has 1 shared expert and 384 routed experts, with 6 routed experts active per token. The vision side is a DeepSeek-ViT encoder with a two layer MLP projector. Pre-training used 45T tokens, with context extended to one million tokens at 34T. Images and text go in → The 20 layer encoder reads them → The decoder uses the projected KV cache → Text is written out Parameters in billions | Label | Value | | --- | --- | | Backbone | 552 billion | | Active at decode | 16 billion | | Active at prefill | 8 billion | ### Good to know - Hugging Face counts 763B parameters, which fits the 552B backbone plus the Engram tables. - The model reads images and text and writes only text. - License: mit. - Cost to run: none named, but the hardware needs are huge. - Data it reaches: the prompts and images you give it. The source names no account or outside service. - Not for: the source names none. ## README ````markdown # DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash DeepSeek's multimodal mixture of experts model with a 552B backbone and a one million token context, built to cut KV cache cost for long input agent work. Suits teams with large GPU clusters. Made by deepseek-ai on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its model page and model card; the model's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a multimodal mixture of experts model from DeepSeek. It reads images and text and writes text, with a 552B parameter backbone and a context of up to one million tokens. Its encoder decoder design projects the decoder's global KV cache from the final encoder states. Per token, it wakes just 8B parameters while reading input and 16B while writing, according to the card. Who it suits: Teams with large GPU clusters who want an open model for long input agent work, and researchers who study KV cache compression. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Software | Agent developers | Run agents that read long inputs | Feed in a large codebase and ask for a plan Research | Efficiency researchers | Study KV cache compression | Read the technical report Infrastructure | Serving teams | Test hosting a huge mixture of experts model | Plan storage for about 763 GB of weights Document work | Analysts | Ask about images and long documents | Ask a question about a chart and a report ``` Skip it if you only have a single computer, because the weights take about 763 GB. Where to use it: - A multi GPU server with the Transformers library, which the page lists - Agent tools that you connect to a copy you serve yourself - Your own storage, filled with the Hugging Face tools ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Long input agent work | Developers | Replies that use contexts of up to a million tokens Image and text questions | Analysts | Text answers that use both pictures and words Efficiency research | Researchers | A model built around cheaper KV caches ``` How to set it up: - Python and the Hugging Face tools - About 763 GB of storage for the weights - A large GPU cluster 1. Install the Hugging Face hub package. 2. Download the repository files. 3. Serve them with your own inference setup, since the card text here lists no command. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash ``` How to use it: Send text, images or both to a served copy. The card text here shows no client command, so follow the serving notes on the model page. ```table Tool | What it does Causal Encoder Decoder | Splits 40 layers into a 20 layer encoder and a 20 layer decoder CSA2 | Gives each attention layer a Full, Reindex or Reuse mode to share KV data FP4 main KV caching | Stores the main KV cache in a compact 4 bit format Engram memory | A lookup table of 196B parameters read sparsely per token DSpark | Speculative decoding that schedules its checks by how sure the draft is ``` Example: Paste a long report into a served copy, attach a chart image and ask for a summary of what the chart says. It should return text that uses both the report and the picture. For newcomers and experts: If you are new to this, know that the model is far too large for a home computer. Read the model page first and start with a smaller model. If you know the field, each mixture of experts layer has 1 shared expert and 384 routed experts, with 6 routed experts active per token. The vision side is a DeepSeek-ViT encoder with a two layer MLP projector. Pre-training used 45T tokens, with context extended to one million tokens at 34T. ```flow Images and text go in The 20 layer encoder reads them The decoder uses the projected KV cache Text is written out ``` ```chart Title: Parameters in billions Backbone: 552 billion Active at decode: 16 billion Active at prefill: 8 billion ``` Good to know: - Hugging Face counts 763B parameters, which fits the 552B backbone plus the Engram tables. - The model reads images and text and writes only text. - License: mit. - Cost to run: none named, but the hardware needs are huge. - Data it reaches: the prompts and images you give it. The source names no account or outside service. - Not for: the source names none. ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Task: image text to text - Library: transformers - Parameters: 763B - Weights: about 763 GB in I8 - Formats: Safetensors - Downloads in the last 30 days: 1,759,335 - Likes: 4,949 - License: mit - Quantized versions: 143 - Fine-tunes: 27 - Tags: transformers, safetensors, deepseek_v41, text-generation, image-text-to-text, conversational, 8-bit, fp8 ## Links - Model: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash - Files: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash/tree/main ## Get the model Download its files with Hugging Face's command line: ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash ``` Then follow the usage in its model card. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 5 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 5 KB ``` ## Source [deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face models in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Downloads, last 30 days | Likes | Parameters | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (this page) | 1,759,335 | 4,949 | 763B | mit | 2026-10-16 | | [DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017](https://mindket.com/p/dc968c8e-249a-450a-af4c-bd0b11b76d78) | 398,161 | 5,600 | 763B | mit | 2026-11-10 | | [DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-NVFP4](https://mindket.com/p/eadea50f-ca5a-4e3e-bb2e-49a530686e6b) | 33,272 | 128 | 763B | mit | 2026-10-14 | | [DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-NVFP4](https://mindket.com/p/55f4d177-0a71-40fb-8807-e1d706971f4e) | 13,127 | 188 | 665B | mit | 2026-11-04 | | [DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-Sushi-STQ-1.75bpw](https://mindket.com/p/fdad1d8f-5a04-4c8c-abd2-33ad12a14786) | 3,478 | 23 | 261B | mit | 2026-11-04 | | [Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4](https://mindket.com/p/0bab94ef-84bc-4129-902d-c0241f777c51) | 268,673 | 239 | 18.2B | apache-2.0 | 2026-09-17 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-13. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-12. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · Liwink · 2026-09-10](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639090): DeepSeek v4.1 Flash: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash - [Bluesky · TokenMargin.Dev · 2026-11-12](https://bsky.app/profile/tokenmargin.dev/post/3n236ugmig326): Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Which LLM API actually protects your SaaS gross margin at 10,000 DAU? Here is the live 2026 token math across input, output \& prompt caching: 🧵👇 \#AI \#LLM \#DevTools \#SaaS \#BuildInPublic - [Hacker News · namjh · 2026-11-12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50465568): Show HN: Pick your dream LLM H/W setup and simulate its throughput: Also, you can share your simulation with query parameters, ex) https://cro.sh/specmaxx/?m=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash\&d... - [Bluesky · TokenMargin.Dev · 2026-11-12](https://bsky.app/profile/tokenmargin.dev/post/3n23unr2mrb27): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-6 Luna Pro: Which LLM API actually protects your SaaS gross margin at 10,000 DAU? Here is the live 2026 token math across input, output \& prompt caching: 🧵👇 \#AI \#LLM \#DevTools \#SaaS \#BuildInPublic - [Hacker News · jameson · 2026-11-07](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50408736): MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?": DS flash also has V4.1 update and supposedly achieves 77.0 on deepswe v1.1 https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 - [Bluesky · TokenMargin.Dev · 2026-11-12](https://bsky.app/profile/tokenmargin.dev/post/3n23pncw4cn24): MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Which LLM API actually protects your SaaS gross margin at 10,000 DAU? Here is the live 2026 token math across input, output \& prompt caching: 🧵👇 \#AI \#LLM \#DevTools \#SaaS \#BuildInPublic - [Hacker News · arlcode · 2026-10-30](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311221): Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says: 4xh200 seem to be enough if you cpu offload the engrams (which is pretty typical and even expected).1 And these are quite old cards by now. But yeah "all of OpenRouters traffic" is gonna take more than a rack https://recipes.vllm.ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash?hard... - [Bluesky · TokenMargin.Dev · 2026-11-12](https://bsky.app/profile/tokenmargin.dev/post/3n23fl6ek2n2h): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash: Which LLM API actually protects your SaaS gross margin at 10,000 DAU? Here is the live 2026 token math across input, output \& prompt caching: 🧵👇 \#AI \#LLM \#DevTools \#SaaS \#BuildInPublic - [Hacker News · badsectoracula · 2026-10-29](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294484): We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4: This is ancient (2 years ago), all their recent stuff (e.g. 01) are MIT licensed. The only exception i've found from a quick browse of their stuff is 2, which is Apache 2 licensed. Even the update to V3 (which you linked at), V3.2, was MIT licensed. 0… - [Bluesky · AWS News Feed on 🦋 · 2026-11-12](https://bsky.app/profile/awsrecentnews.bsky.social/post/3n236ldcwrv2v): 🆕 DeepSeek's DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash models are now on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, offering high-efficiency MoE language models for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads. Deploy with clicks for advanced AI tasks. \#AWS \#AmazonSagemakerJumpstart \#Aiml - [Hacker News · freakynit · 2026-10-20](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163958): DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models: It's exceptionally optimized... 890 bytes per token. At standard 32K context, that's less than 30MB. 1. https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash 2. https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/deepseek-v4-1-flash-specs-arc... - [Bluesky · Shark Rating · 2026-11-10](https://bsky.app/profile/sharkrating.com/post/3mzw53qch4v2l): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (batch) - Is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, a sparse mixture-of-experts model. Within DeepSeek's lineup, the Flash designation places this model as the faster, more cost-efficient... \#DeepSeek \#AI 🔗 https://ift.tt/fCuxwVA ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2026-10-16 - First published: 2026-09-10 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - Something wrong? 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