DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Beats DeepSeek’s Own Flagship — and It Is Now the Cheapest Backend for Codex and Claude Code

DeepSeek's smallest new model out-scores the V4-Pro it replaced, needs about a quarter of the cache, and now ships with official Codex and Claude Code integrations. SiliconFlow, notably, has not switched it on yet. DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on 10 September 2026. It is the smallest model in a brand-new architecture...