DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on...
Model details →DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL is a 12-billion-parameter open multimodal reasoning model designed for video understanding and document intelligence. It introduces a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture, combining transformer-level accuracy with…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 131K | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.15 | $0.20 | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.60 | $0.60 | Tie |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | — | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL?
Input: $0.15 vs $0.20 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.60 vs $0.60 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL support?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supports up to 1.0M tokens. NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL support tool calling?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: yes. NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL: not advertised.