Note that posts about the old v4 flash model are available at https://aibynick.com/thread/50
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now available on Cline-pass, so it can be used nearly endlessly for less than $7 per month.
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is a genuinely fantastic model, with very fast performance. Here are a few example apps I created in one evening:
- https://com-pute.com/nick/apex-rush--3d-driving-game--deepseek-v41-flash.html
- https://com-pute.com/nick/word-processor--deepseek41f.html
- https://com-pute.com/nick/spreadsheet--deepseek41f.html
- https://com-pute.com/nick/netwars--tunnel--deepseek41f.html
- https://com-pute.com/nick/netwars--deepseek41f.html
All those apps together, plus a large volume of additional agentic work used up only 15% of my 5 hour limit, and 5% of my weekly limit, so I should be able to complete more than 3x that amount of inference, every day of the month on Cline-pass. That's ridiculously cheap, expansive use.
I'll likely end up using that word processor app as my main document editing software - I built it to work with all the document types and features I really care about. I'll also continue to refine it, as well as the games, since high quality app development is now basically free and painless :)