# DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Grok 4.6

As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in 7 of 8 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: $0.23463 per 1M blended tokens.

Grok 4.6: $3 per 1M blended tokens.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: open weights.

Grok 4.6: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in General LLM at #32 against #61.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Reasoning at #29 against #55.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Science at #10 against #36.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Coding › Web dev at #21 against #22.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Long context at #37 against #48.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Vision at #21 against #24.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Factuality at #25 against #62.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Abstraction (ARC) at #8 against #20.

As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is state of the art on best per dollar in General LLM (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Grok 4.6 is ranked #10 in Science (since Oct 15, 2026; sources GPQA Diamond; methodology v1.0).