Meta: Muse Ember vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-12.
| Meta: Muse Ember | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | meta | deepseek |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 56.7 | 50.7 |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | $0.15/M |
| Output Price | $0.50/M | $0.60/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 393,216 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 59.4 | 53.8 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Muse Ember costs $0.23 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 costs $0.30, so Muse Ember is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.
Only Muse Ember offers audio input and video input.
On our blended benchmark score Muse Ember leads 56.7 to 50.7.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Muse Ember scores higher on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Muse Ember was released in November 2026 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 in October 2026.
Pick Muse Ember if you need lower cost, audio input, video input, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Meta: Muse Ember | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 141 | 140 |
| Code Review | 143 | 142 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 132 |
| Code Refactoring | 145 | 144 |
| Bug Fixing | 147 | 146 |
| Unit Test Generation | 131 | 130 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 136 |
| Regex Writing | 125 | 125 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 127 | 126 |
| Frontend Component Design | 129 | 128 |
| Data Analysis | 132 | 132 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 136 | 135 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 133 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 133 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 147 | 146 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 126 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 129 | 128 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →