Hands-on: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Gemini 4 Argon on a one-shot task

Adit_Yah ☄️ @AdidotdevOriginally posted 2026.10.18

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs GEMINI 4 ARGON after seeing some comparisons where DeepSeek was beating Argon, i had to try it myself. Both models one shot this. Argon took around 10 mins and used ~2% of my weekly quota. V4.1 Flash finished in around 4 mins (free on Open Code). DeepSeek team really cooked with this one, but i still don't think it's at Argon's level. Then again, it's a Flash model, so it's honestly impressive.