AI BriefingDeepSeek V4.1 Flash Released on AI Gateway with Image Understanding Support
Key point
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on AI Gateway, supporting native image understanding and a 1 million token context window.
Details
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has been released via AI Gateway, supporting native image understanding capabilities. It can process text and images in the same request, enabling screenshot analysis, chart reading, and visual information extraction.
Performance and Architecture
This model supports a 1 million token context window and up to 384,000 tokens of response generation, offering reasoning, tool use, and prompt caching features. The new architecture separates input processing and output generation into distinct components, reducing the active compute load for each stage.
Usage and AI Gateway Features
Users can specify the model name as deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash. To use it with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and similar tools, install the latest Vercel CLI, configure it, and select the model.
AI Gateway supports model invocation, usage and cost tracking, retry and failover configuration, and more through a unified API. It reflects provider pricing directly with no platform fees, and no fees are charged for BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) requests.
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