DeepSeek V4.1 Flash hands-on tests and comparisons

A user criticizes a benchmark ranking that puts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash below Grok 4.7, calling the scores bad and suspecting paid influence.

The author says DeepSeek 1017 is cheaper and better than Grok 4.7 on the same CursorBench, and questions Cursor subscriptions that no longer include non-Grok models.

In Cursor, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 47.7% for $0.98 versus Grok 4.7 Extra High's 46.3% for $6, six times the price.

A user complains Grok 4.7 is stale, saying V4.1 Flash 1017 does what Grok does at much lower cost and works well enough in OpenCode Go to justify a Cursor sub.

In the same AGI Pelican stunt task, DS V4.1 Flash 1017 Max took 1h04m and 49.8M tokens, while Grok 4.7 Xhigh took 54m43s and 16.8M tokens.

The author had Grok craft a test to check whether DeepSeek-v4.1-flash-1017 is a distillation of GPT Astra, and shares Grok's first-round answer as an image.

A prompt template walks through installing DeepSeek Harness from its GitHub docs on a cloud terminal, defaulting to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and entering an API key, claiming the model's coding peak comes with its own harness and is fast.

A Japanese poster suggests putting Grok Bot at the top, letting Claude Code split tasks per project, and delegating execution to Devin SWE-2 and free OpenCode models.