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DeepSeek V4.1 FlashvsSonar Deep Research
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Sonar Deep Research do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 23.8x cheaper per token. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
23.8x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
DeepSeek · Perplexity
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek · released 2026-09-10
textvision
Sonar Deep Research
Perplexity · released 2025-02-14
text
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 3 only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · 6 only Sonar Deep Research| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Sonar Deep Research | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash reports · 3 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 74.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 90.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Sonar Deep Research reports · 6 | ||||
| DRACO Breadth & Depth (Opus 4.6 base) | not reported | 73.1% ↗ | — | — |
| DRACO Citation Quality (Opus 4.6 base) | not reported | 64.6% ↗ | — | — |
| DRACO Factual Accuracy (Opus 4.6 base) | not reported | 67.9% ↗ | — | — |
| DRACO Normalized Score (Opus 4.6 base) | not reported | 70.5% ↗ | — | — |
| DRACO Pass Rate (Opus 4.6 base) | not reported | 72.8% ↗ | — | — |
| DRACO Presentation Quality (Opus 4.6 base) | not reported | 90.3% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash minus Sonar Deep Research in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Sonar Deep Research | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 128K tokens | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Max output | 384K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.14 ↗ | $2 ↗ | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Output price / 1M | $0.28 ↗ | $8 ↗ | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.003 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.42 | $10 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Released | 2026-09-10 | 2025-02-14 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 3 | 6 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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