DeepSeek V4.1 Flash gains traction on medical benchmarks at low cost

Daniel Zambrini @DanielZambriniOriginally posted 2026.10.26

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is trending for its medical benchmark scores at a crazy low cost!! And it's open weights, MIT license, you can run it locally Cheap local models keep closing the gap. I still go to Sol when quality matters, but for the cheap tasks this is getting really hard to ignore The 1017 checkpoint already surprised me on my test, check it out:

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