# DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway

DevFeed: [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/deepseek-v4-1-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway-889.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://vercel.com/changelog/deepseek-v4-1-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway>)

Author: Jerilyn Zheng

Published: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Vercel News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vercel-news.md>)

Topics: [deepseek](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deepseek.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/codex.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-gateway.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/codex.md>), [context-window](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-window.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [deepseek](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deepseek.md>), [responses](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/responses.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vercel.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>)

## AI overview

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available through Vercel's AI Gateway, offering native image understanding, a 1 million token context window, responses up to 384,000 tokens, reasoning, tool use, and prompt caching. Developers can use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents with the model name deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash.

## Source excerpt

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on AI Gateway with native image understanding. V4.1 Flash has vision support and accepts text and images in the same request, so you can ask questions about screenshots, read charts, and extract information from visual content. The model has a 1 million token context window and supports responses up to 384,000 tokens, along with reasoning, tool use, and prompt caching. Its new architecture processes input and generates output with separate components, reducing the active computation needed for each stage. Use deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash as the model name: To use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup: Then select deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash in the agent. See the coding agents guide for details. Try DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in the model playground. AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting, Zero Data Retention support, budgets for API keys, routing rules, and more. AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests. You can view all language models available on AI Gateway. Read more