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 Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Perceptron Mk1 (Mark One) is Perceptron's highest-quality vision-language model for video and embodied reasoning.** It accepts image and video inputs paired with natural language queries, and produces detailed visual understanding...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 33K | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.30 | $0.15 | 🏆 Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $1.20 | $1.50 | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| 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 Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1?
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 Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1?
Input: $0.30 vs $0.15 per 1M tokens. Output: $1.20 vs $1.50 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 support?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supports up to 1.0M tokens. Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 supports up to 33K tokens.
Do both DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 support tool calling?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: yes. Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1: not advertised.