AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a 552B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with native visual understanding, which DeepSeek calls the smallest model in its new architecture family. It is served on the DeepSeek API under the model name deepseek-flash, with open weights under the MIT License.
Model B — Black Forest Labs
FLUX 3 Image is the image generation and editing model of Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 family, released on October 1, 2026. One endpoint generates or edits images, takes up to ten reference images and bounding-box layouts in the prompt, and outputs up to 4K (about 16 megapixels). Black Forest Labs also licenses the weights commercially for companies that run it on their own infrastructure.
| Property | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | FLUX 3 Image |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Sep 10, 2026 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| Developer | DeepSeek | Black Forest Labs |
| Type | multimodal | image |
| License | open-weight | proprietary |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | — |
| Parameters | 552B total (MoE); 8B active parameters for input (prefill), 16B for output (decode) | — |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $/M tokens | $1.20 | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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