DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 now available on AI Gateway
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is now available on AI Gateway, offering improvements in reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and image understanding with faster task completion and reduced token usage. The model can be accessed via the unified AI Gateway API with provider pricing and no platform fees.
is now available on .DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017AI Gateway
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is a minor update to that improves reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and image understanding.DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
The coding gains show up in terminal work and in building and editing whole repositories, and the agentic gains in multi-step automation. With images, the model reads charts and handles visual reasoning more accurately when it can call tools.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 also finishes tasks faster and with shorter outputs than the previous snapshot, so agent runs tend to take less time and use fewer output tokens.
Use as the model name:deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
To use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup:
Try DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 in the .model playground
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