DeepSeek’s October update to V4.1 Flash lifts Terminal-Bench from 31.2 to 42.3 and cuts the cost per coding task to about $0.20. DeepSeek’s own table also shows where it still trails Claude Opus 5.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Near-Frontier Agents at a Tenth of the Price. Read the Table Before You Switch.
