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: Switchyard
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Switchyard is an open-source model router that switches between multiple models to optimize the cost of requests. By default it will use OpenRouter market data to select the most popular...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | NVIDIA: Switchyard | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 1M | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.30 | $-1000000.00 | 🏆 NVIDIA: Switchyard |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $1.20 | $-1000000.00 | 🏆 NVIDIA: Switchyard |
| 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 | — | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than NVIDIA: Switchyard?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash wins on 4 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: Switchyard?
Input: $0.30 vs $-1000000.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $1.20 vs $-1000000.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and NVIDIA: Switchyard support?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supports up to 1.0M tokens. NVIDIA: Switchyard supports up to 1M tokens.
Do both DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and NVIDIA: Switchyard support tool calling?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: yes. NVIDIA: Switchyard: not advertised.