DeepSeek V4.1 Flash hands-on tests and comparisons

On the same repo and prompt, 6.1 Sol finished in under half the time of DS 1017 with clearly higher intelligence, while DS 1017 even miscopied strings from the prompt.

A user notes that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is now available in Cursor and starts using it for coding, with a screenshot of the setup.

A one-line reaction to V4.1 Flash 1017 appearing in Cursor, with no hands-on results or data.

The post says Cursor turned on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash as a production default, with CursorBench runs costing $0.60–$0.98 per task and nothing scoring higher at that price, plus aggregator input pricing as low as $0.0477 per million tokens.

A user posts a screenshot saying Cursor has integrated V4.1 Flash and cites a claim that no model scores higher at the same price, rebutting doubts about Chinese models.