Vercel AI Gateway Adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast: Vendor Figures Cite Upwards of 1,000 Tokens per Second on a Fireworks Endpoint
Vercel published a changelog on 2026-11-07 (authors Jerilyn Zheng and Zachary Chen) saying DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast is now on AI Gateway through Fireworks' accelerated serverless endpoint; the official @vercel_dev account posted at 17:25 UTC. Vendor figures say it can generate upwards of 1,000 tokens per second, serving the 2026-10-17 V4.1 Flash update rather than new base-model weights. The model page lists a 1,048,576-token context window and pricing of $2.40 per million input tokens and $9.60 per million output tokens; it is a public preview with no waitroom or session time limit. The model ID is deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-ultrafast, callable via the AI SDK, an OpenAI-compatible API, and npx vercel ai-gateway setup for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
Key Takeaways
- Release: Vercel changelog dated 2026-11-07 by Jerilyn Zheng and Zachary Chen; @vercel_dev posted at 17:25 UTC (about 909 likes, 390 bookmarks and about 98K impressions at capture)
- Model ID: deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-ultrafast, serving the 2026-10-17 V4.1 Flash update on Fireworks' accelerated serverless endpoint, not new base-model weights
- Speed (vendor figures): upwards of 1,000 tokens per second; the model page lists both the context window and max output tokens as 1,048,576; public preview with no waitroom or session time limit
- Pricing (Vercel model page): $2.40 per million input tokens and $9.60 per million output tokens; the changelog says AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and no platform fee on BYOK inference
- Access: AI SDK or base_url https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1; Claude Code, Codex and Cursor can use
npx vercel ai-gateway setup; fx can run/model deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-ultrafast
