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Where DeepSeek Flash Is Cheap and Where It Isn't: An Agent Cost Model and Selection Checklist for V4.1 Flash
by Remy
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash bills cache hits at 2% of the miss price with no long-context tier, yet its output costs 2.4x Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna and peak hours cover Beijing office time. A cost model on four agent task shapes, subagent/routing/off-peak/self-host trade-offs, failure modes, and a checklist.
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