deepseek-v4.1-flash

DeepSeekAdded Sep 29, 2026New
Model iddeepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash

DeepSeek's multimodal mixture-of-experts model, 552B parameters with 8 to 16B active per token, built to cut the cost of agent workloads that read a lot of input. Takes images as well as text, with reasoning effort selectable per request.

Cost /1M tokens
$0.30input
$0.03cached
$1.20output
Context
1Mtokens
Live speed
226 tok/s · 0.61s to first token
Speed

Throughput users got on deepseek-v4.1-flash with Keln API in the last 24 hours.

100200300400 tok/s24h ago18h ago12h ago6h agonow
Latency

Time to first token users got on deepseek-v4.1-flash with Keln API in the last 24 hours.

1.0 s2.0 s3.0 s4.0 s24h ago18h ago12h ago6h agonow

Capabilities

Input
Text and images
Tool calling
Yes
JSON output
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Web search
With opt-in
Data retention
Zero

Use the API

Create an API key, save it to KELN_API_KEY, then call the endpoint below.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.keln.ai/v1/",
    api_key=os.environ.get("KELN_API_KEY"),
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Use with your tools

Set up guides on docs.keln.ai ↗

Ready to build on Keln?

Run deepseek-v4.1-flash in the playground, or create a key and call it from your code.