DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored vs Gemma 4 31B

Practical read: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored reads four times more context. Gemma 4 31B costs about a fifth as much and starts answering sooner. One API key runs both.

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Side by side:

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored compared with Google: Gemma 4 31B
Attribute	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored `dealignai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored`	Gemma 4 31B `google/gemma-4-31b-it`
Price, 1M in + out	$2.22 Maple, cheapest route	$0.46 Weights & Biases, cheapest route
Best for	Long documents	Low cost and speed
Input / output, 1M	$0.69 / $1.53	$0.11 / $0.36
Cached input	$0.13715/1M	$0.060927/1M to $0.26375/1M
Context window	1.05M 1,048,576 tokens	262K 262,144 tokens
First token, p50	1.7 s via Maple	0.63 s via Tinfoil
Throughput	Measuring	373 tok/s via FriendliAI
AI IQ	Unrated	IQ 101 #120 on AI IQ
Provider routes	1	15 with failover
Privacy	Confidential E2EE and zero retention route	Confidential E2EE and zero retention route
Recent route uptime range	42.42%	0.00% to 100.00%
Publisher	dealignai	Google AI Studio
Modes	chat	chat
More detail	Overview	Overview Pricing Providers

Price adds one million input and one million output tokens on the cheapest route. Prices and speed change: see the monthly reports and run a small eval before you choose a default.

Test both with your agent

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Compare DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored and Gemma 4 31B in this project through TrustedRouter.

1. Read https://trustedrouter.com/docs/llms.txt
2. Point the OpenAI-compatible client at
   https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1 and read the key from
   TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY.
3. Run our eval prompts on dealignai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored, then on google/gemma-4-31b-it.
4. Show me cost, latency and quality side by side before changing the default.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY"],
)
for model in ("dealignai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored", "google/gemma-4-31b-it"):
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model,
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}],
    )
    print(model, response.choices[0].message.content)

for model in dealignai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored google/gemma-4-31b-it; do
  curl https://api.trustedrouter.com/v1/chat/completions \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRUSTEDROUTER_API_KEY" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"model\": \"$model\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"What is the capital of France?\"}]}"
done

Your agent will need an API key.

Questions

Which should I use, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored or Google: Gemma 4 31B?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored has the larger context window. Google: Gemma 4 31B has the lower published input-plus-output rate, more Credits provider routes and the lower measured p50 time to first token.

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored or Google: Gemma 4 31B cheaper?

The current cheapest TrustedRouter route is $2.2155/1M for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored and $0.4642/1M for Google: Gemma 4 31B. The comparison uses current catalog prices and updates as provider pricing changes.

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored or Google: Gemma 4 31B faster?

Current measured p50 time to first token is 1691 ms for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored and 629 ms for Google: Gemma 4 31B. These are routed probe measurements, not vendor-advertised speeds, and update as new samples arrive.

Can I test DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored and Google: Gemma 4 31B with the same API?

Yes. Use the same OpenAI-compatible TrustedRouter base URL and API key, then change only the model id between dealignai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored and google/gemma-4-31b-it. This makes side-by-side evals possible without maintaining two provider integrations.

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Try DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored and Gemma 4 31B with one key.

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