Summary
According to a post on X by @engyai, Engy, which sells verifiable inference for frontier open models, says the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model it serves now accepts image input. The post follows an earlier Engy price change that puts the model at $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.12 per million output tokens, which the source says is about 80% below DeepSeek's official rates. The update is new in that the model now handles images as well as text, according to the post. The source snippet is a short excerpt, so details beyond these points are not available here.
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What happened
Engy, which sells verifiable inference for frontier open models, says the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model it serves now accepts image input. It follows Engy's price change earlier this week that puts the model at $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.12 per million output tokens, about 80% below DeepSeek's official...
Why it matters
Developers and businesses using Engy to access this open model could gain image-handling features at a lower cost than the source says DeepSeek charges directly. Teams comparing inference providers may want to check whether Engy's pricing and image support hold up for their workloads. Watch for further details on image capabilities, supported formats, and whether the pricing stays in place.
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