deepseek-v4-flash vs grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
deepseek-v4-flash is about 20% cheaper per 1M input tokens on CaMeL Hub.
| deepseek-v4-flash | grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | xAI |
| per 1M input tokens | $1.00 | $1.25 |
| per 1M output tokens | $2.00 | $2.5 |
| Context window | 1000000 tokens | 1000000 tokens |
| Capabilities | streaming, function-calling |
When to use which
deepseek-v4-flash
deepseek-v4-flash is DeepSeek's fast, budget-tier V4 chat model. On CaMeL Hub it costs $1 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens via the OpenAI-compatible API — point base_url to https://api.camel-hub.com/v1, keep your existing SDK code, and you are live. It supports streaming and function calling and handles a 1M-token context window.
- High-volume summarization and classification pipelines where per-request cost dominates the budget
- Customer-support and product chatbots that need fast streamed replies at predictable per-token cost
- Agent tool-calling loops: v4-flash's function calling drives multi-step agents without frontier-model pricing per iteration
- Structured data extraction — turning invoices, logs, or scraped pages into typed JSON via function-call schemas
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning is xAI's low-latency Grok variant that skips chain-of-thought and answers immediately. On CaMeL Hub it costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens via the OpenAI-compatible API — point base_url to https://api.camel-hub.com/v1 and keep your existing SDK code.
- High-volume customer support chat where fast first-token latency matters more than deep multi-step reasoning
- Real-time classification and content moderation pipelines that process thousands of items per minute
- Bulk summarization of support tickets, call transcripts, and articles where output cost dominates the bill
- Whole-document Q&A and data extraction over contracts or codebases, using the 1M-token context window instead of a chunking pipeline