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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on Fireworks: Astra-level DeepSWE at 1/15th the cost
Fireworks AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Fireworks released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, achieving GPT-6 Astra-level coding accuracy on DeepSWE at one-fifteenth the cost per task.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building autonomous coding agents or software engineering workflows where cost per inference task directly impacts budget sustainability.
- Watch out
- Model excels at coding tasks but significantly underperforms on complex reasoning benchmarks like HLE, so task-specific evaluation is essential before deployment.
- deepseek
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