Model comparison

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs NVILA 8B

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#38); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek

52.8

Rank #38 Confirmed

NVILA 8B NVIDIA

37.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads 39.1 to 35.0.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and NVILA 8B specifications
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
ProviderDeepSeekNVIDIA
Noometry Index52.837.3
Released2026-09-092024-12-10
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M—
Max output393K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked371

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 52.9 (#32), NVILA 8B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena WebDev1619—
SciCode51.9%—
LMArena Coding1506—
ALE-Bench1,092—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 31.2 (#69), NVILA 8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
APEX-Agents39.5%—
GDP.pdf19.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 50.2 (#36), NVILA 8B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%—
CritPt14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1483—
Mystery Game Puzzles43%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA47%—
Surface Evolver Bench46.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.9—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 66.7 (#25), NVILA 8B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)67.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%—
ProofBench54%—
LMArena Math1477—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 57.9 (#38), NVILA 8B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
GPQA Diamond89.8%—
LMArena Expert1506—

Multimodal DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 39.1 (#61), NVILA 8B: 35.0

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Vision1277—
Video-MME—64.2%
Furniture Assembly34.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 55.0 (#35), NVILA 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Non-English1448—
LMArena Chinese1497—
LMArena French1452—
LMArena German1484—
LMArena Japanese1412—
LMArena Korean1452—
LMArena Russian1471—
LMArena Spanish1459—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 77.3 (#26), NVILA 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1474—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 45.2 (#47), NVILA 8B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 65.4 (#48), NVILA 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNVILA 8B
LMArena Text1462—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1540—
LMArena Multi-Turn1457—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than NVILA 8B?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#38); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and NVILA 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has 37 scored results on Noometry and NVILA 8B has 1.

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