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Agent Arena places DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Max) among its top open models at a reported $0.07 median cost per task

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Agent Arena reports that DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Max) ranked third among open models with a 4.87% net improvement and a $0.07 median cost per task. The supplied comparison says this was near Hy4 preview’s reported improvement at 68% lower cost and below Kimi K3 (Max) at 91% lower cost. The excerpts do not provide the evaluation protocol or independently verify the leaderboard.

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Exciting news: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Max) by @deepseek_ai just landed in Agent Arena at #3 among open models! With +4.87% net improvement and a median cost per task of $0.07 it resh Linked image · x.com

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X list: https://x.com/i/lists/1585430245762441216By arena
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Max) is a breakthrough in performance to cost efficiency. With +4.87% net improvement at $0.07 cost per median task, it’s reshaped the Pareto frontier for Agen x.com
At $0.07 median cost per task and +4.87% net improvement, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Max) lands on the Pareto frontier! Check out the full Agent Arena leaderboard and Pareto frontier at Linked article · arena.ai

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Check out the full Agent Arena leaderboard and Pareto frontier at: arena.ai/leaderboard/agent/p… Linked article · arena.ai

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  1. Agent Arena places DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Max) among its top open models at a reported $0.07 median cost per task

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