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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507

Practical read: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs about an eighth as much and reads more context. One API key runs both.

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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash compared with Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507
Attribute DeepSeek V4.1 Flash deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 qwen/qwen3-4b-thinking-2507
Price, 1M in + out $0.16 Engy, cheapest route $1.27 Featherless AI, cheapest route
Best for Low cost and long documents
Input / output, 1M $0.032 / $0.13 $0.42 / $0.84
Cached input $0.01/1M to $0.1899/1M Not published
Context window 1.05M 1,048,576 tokens 33K 32,768 tokens
First token, p50 0.71 s via Together Measuring
AI IQ IQ 126 #24 on AI IQ Unrated
Provider routes 21 with failover 1
Privacy Confidential E2EE and zero retention route Zero retention route
Recent route uptime range 80.00% to 100.00% not enough data
Publisher DeepSeek Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
Modes chat decide chat
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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 and Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 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 deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash, then on qwen/qwen3-4b-thinking-2507.
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 ("deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash", "qwen/qwen3-4b-thinking-2507"):
    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 deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash qwen/qwen3-4b-thinking-2507; 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
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Questions

Which should I use, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has the lower published input-plus-output rate, more Credits provider routes and the larger context window. There is not enough recent probe data to compare speed.

Is DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 cheaper?

The current cheapest TrustedRouter route is $0.15825/1M for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and $1.266/1M for Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507. The comparison uses current catalog prices and updates as provider pricing changes.

Is DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 faster?

Current measured p50 time to first token is 711 ms for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and not enough data for Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507. These are routed probe measurements, not vendor-advertised speeds, and update as new samples arrive.

Can I test DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 with the same API?

Yes. Use the same OpenAI-compatible TrustedRouter base URL and API key, then change only the model id between deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash and qwen/qwen3-4b-thinking-2507. This makes side-by-side evals possible without maintaining two provider integrations.

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