DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Since the latest Artifacts, the whale has not released one, but two new model iterations with a new size (552B-A16B) which also support image inputs. The model has gained a lot of (well-deserved) attention for its performance at a small price. It also carries the MIT license, continuing the trend established by DeepSeek themselves. This is notable in times where licenses seem to become more bespoke and exclusionary. Below is the Pareto of performance vs price on DeepSWE, a favorite agentic software engineering benchmark today, which DeepSeek dominates.
Relative Adoption Metric contextualizes downloads against the model's size bucket.
OpenRouter publishes daily token totals for its ~50 most-served models. Days missing from the chart mean DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 fell below that cutoff — not zero usage. OpenRouter logs usage separately per dated model version and per variant (like ":free"); the hub combines provider variants while keeping separately cataloged releases distinct.
