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Start with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Step3 VL 10B, or choose any two current ranked language models. Compare capability evidence, price, context, provider availability, and weight access without pretending one field decides every use case.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Step3 VL 10B
Live dataset updated 9/15/2026, 9:19:37 PM UTC
Open 1200×630 evidence receipt| Field | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek | Step3 VL 10B Stepfun Ai |
|---|---|---|
| ModelCap position | #21 | #53 |
| Index score | 75.1 | 59.5 |
| Evidence | Measured2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards | Estimatedglobal-corpus-prior over 194 held-out anchors (18%); launch card against 2 resolved peers on 4 rows (82%); exceeds every named peer on 3 of 4 rows; no cross-lab optimism probe available; shrunk 1.6 toward the measured corpus |
| Input / 1M | $0.15 | Unavailable |
| Output / 1M | $0.60 | Unavailable |
| Pricing status | fresh | unavailable |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Providers | 17 | 0 |
| Weight access | Open weights | Open weights |
Decision facts
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is #21; Step3 VL 10B is #53 on the same current language board.
- Index scores are 75.1 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and 59.5 for Step3 VL 10B. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
- Evidence differs: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is Measured; Step3 VL 10B is Estimated.
- ModelCap currently lists 17 providers for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and 0 for Step3 VL 10B.
These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.
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