Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, head to head

Side A

Side B

Overall

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is clearly better. It wins 73 of the 76 test cases where they differ.

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Task by task

A score turns orange only when that model wins clearly more of the task's test cases. Under each score, the average time per test case on the machine it ran on. Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) spends 1.2× as many thinking tokens per test case.

Thinking tokensAnswer tokens

TaskAApodex 1.1 Mini (free)BDeepSeek V4.1 FlashApodex 1.1 Mini (free)DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Overall

2535.1s

8.5K6K

643m 35s

Agents

Runs multi-step jobs through tools, within a written policy

2639.4s

6.2K6.1K

464m 42s

Structured Extraction

Turns logs, diffs and records into exact JSON

5227.2s

7.7K4.4K

862m 8s

Coding

Writes code and SQL that pass hidden tests

446.5s

12.1K9.7K

514m 55s

Grounded Answers

Answers from the given documents with sources, never guesses

2926.0s

6.9K3.9K

762m 17s

Instruction Following

Applies every rule, including ones changed mid-conversation

3644.5s

11.4K7.5K

894m 24s

Business Logic

Computes billing, scheduling and pricing rules exactly

1435.4s

10K7K

814m 1s

Security & permissions

Ignores planted instructions, still does the allowed work

4027.3s

5.8K4.4K

693m 3s

Diagnosis & investigation

Chooses diagnostic checks, repairs supported causes and verifies recovery

034.6s

5.1K3.2K

172m 8s

What you'd run

The build behind each score. Orange marks the faster, smaller, cheaper or longer-context side.

SpecAApodex 1.1 Mini (free)BDeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Speed

278 tok/s

30 tok/s

Machine

Hosted

Memory at 32K

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Context

256K

Cost per run

Not measured

$0.39

Cost per case

Not measured

$0.0026

Time per case

35.1s

3m 35s

Quantization

BF16

FP8

Harness

openrouter

The race

No lead changes

Each model's running score as the test cases go by. The dashed line is a perfect run.

Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Every test case

153 test cases

Each square is one test case, colored by the model that scored higher.

Agents28

Structured Extraction18

Coding011

Grounded Answers010

Instruction Following014

Business Logic014

Security & permissions07

Diagnosis & investigation01

3 won by Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)73 won by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash77 tied