I've generally preferred it over proprietary subscription models for daily tasks, as it seems about as capable at mid-level tasks
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200+ tok/s
In the thread “DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)”
Helped: Fast local infrastructure and guaranteed model stability for daily tasks.
… 5.3 Flash, MiMo 2.6 Flash (including the MOPD fix)) and I've run tens of billions of tokens through it and pushed it fairly hard in both private internal benchmarking and in my own workloads to figure out where it's strong/weak. Partly because I run it on very fast local infra (200+ tok/s) and partly because I'm guaranteed it's not being changed on me, I've generally preferred it over proprietary subscription models for daily tasks, as it seems about as capable at mid-level tasks (I reserve Astra/Opus mostly for planning/review). I've replaced the previous model with 1017, and while it's early, a few observations: …