Deepseek's latest AI model is smarter than ever, but its low running costs come at a price

Deepseek 4.1 Flash 1017 drives cost-per-task further down still — open-weight model is fit for agentic workloads and exceedingly cheap to run

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2026-10-23 12:00 · Tom's Hardware
Deepseek's latest AI model is smarter than ever, but its low running costs come at a price

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