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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash repriced across 8 hosts: DigitalOcean down 40% on all rates, Wafer output up 36%

Published 1 October 2026
Price move, per 1M tokens
  • DigitalOcean · input↓ 40%
    $0.30 → $0.18
  • DigitalOcean · output↓ 40%
    $1.20 → $0.72
  • DigitalOcean · cache read↓ 40%
    $0.0060 → $0.0036
  • Wafer · input↓ 33%
    $0.075 → $0.050
  • Wafer · output↑ 36%
    $0.44 → $0.60
  • Wafer · cache read↓ 11%
    $0.045 → $0.040
  • Io Net · input↑ 33%
    $0.090 → $0.120
  • Io Net · outputunchanged
    $0.41 → $0.41
  • Io Net · cache read↑ 11%
    $0.009 → $0.010
  • Reka · input↓ 30%
    $0.20 → $0.14
  • Reka · output↓ 33%
    $0.84 → $0.56
  • Reka · cache read↑ 76%
    $0.0080 → $0.0141
  • Morph · input↓ 32%
    $0.078 → $0.053
  • Morph · output↓ 14%
    $0.50 → $0.43
  • Morph · cache read↓ 50%
    $0.010 → $0.005
  • Relace · input↑ 32%
    $0.0200 → $0.0264
  • Relace · outputunchanged
    $0.60 → $0.60
  • Relace · cache read↑ 32%
    $0.0200 → $0.0264
  • AtlasCloud · input↑ 24%
    $0.114 → $0.141
  • AtlasCloud · output↑ 24%
    $0.456 → $0.564
  • AtlasCloud · cache read↑ 24%
    $0.0114 → $0.0141
  • OpenInference · input↓ 22%
    $0.0198 → $0.0155
  • OpenInference · outputunchanged
    $0.40 → $0.40
  • OpenInference · cache readunchanged
    $0.003 → $0.003
DigitalOcean all rates: ↓ 40%Wafer input: ↓ 33%Wafer output: ↑ 36%Io Net input: ↑ 33%Reka output: ↓ 33%Reka cache read: ↑ 76%Morph input: ↓ 32%Relace input and cache read: ↑ 32%AtlasCloud all rates: ↑ 24%OpenInference input: ↓ 22%
If you buy

On Wafer, output costs more while input and cache reads cost less, so re-check your budget if you generate long answers, and note prompt-heavy jobs now balance differently.

The model
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashopen the model →
Open weights763.2B parameters1049K context35 hosts
intelligence21st of 168 writing37th of 168 coding11th of 168 agents13th of 55

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a downloadable model with a permissive licence, and it places 11th of 168 on Arena Coding via Max as of 25 Sep 2026. At 763.2 billion parameters it is a data-centre job to run yourself, so hosted use is the practical route for most readers.

Source

Read on openrouter.ai · we published this on 1 October 2026.

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