Alternatives to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

These tools sit near DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. Compare features and pricing before you switch.

Alternatives

DeepSeek V4 Flash: the 284B/13B MIT agent model with published API prices.
DeepSeek Harness: the agent runtime this checkpoint was trained and scored against.
mlx-serve: local Apple Silicon serving if you are not hosting 552B.

DeepSeek small agent model: 284B/13B MoE, 1M context, MIT weights, $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens.

45000000DR: 95AS: 88

MIT agent runtime. Pay model API only. Live Flash peak $0.44/$1.32 per 1M, not the old $0.14/$0.28 row.

400000000DR: 88AS: 78

mlx-serve is a MIT Zig inference server for Apple Silicon that runs MLX and GGUF locally with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, no Python.

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