DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeekdeepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55BNVIDIAnvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b
Creator
DeepSeek
NVIDIA
Released
Oct 17, 2026
May 16, 2026
Context window
1.05M (best)
262K
Max output
944K (best)
16K
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$0.10$0.10–$0.30 across 4 (best)
$0.50
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$0.29$0.29–$1.20 across 4 (best)
$2.20
Providers
4 (best)
1
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
32.6 (best)
11.8
Accepts
Text, Image
Text
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
No
Yes

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B: summary

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, from DeepSeek, has a 1,048,576-token context window, costs from $0.10/1M input and $0.29/1M output tokens across 4 providers and scores 32.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B, from NVIDIA, has a 262,144-token context window, costs $0.50/1M input and $2.20/1M output tokens and scores 11.8 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the cheapest on input, 5× cheaper than the next model, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has the largest context window and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 scores highest for intelligence.

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client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b", messages=[...])
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