Compare AI models: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Step 5 Preview

ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	100/100	100/100	59/100	81/100	33/100	92/100
Step 5 Preview	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	50/100 — No data; neutral placeholder	39/100	81/100	50/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark

Overview

Author

Context length

Reasoning

True

Input modalities

Text, Image

Text, Image, Video

Output modalities

Text

Providers

Pricing

Input

$0.30/ 1M

$0.96/ 1M

Output

$1.20/ 1M

$2.74/ 1M

Cached input

$0.006/ 1M

$0.05/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

2.5M

106K

Completed sessions

53,731,439

2,602,613

Token share

25.8%

0.69%

Tokens

265T+100%

7.1T+100%

AUG 24OCT 18

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

64.2%249K user-weeks

Pending

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