DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) vs Muse Ember (Max)

Which is better for the money: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) by DeepSeek or Muse Ember (Max) by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-11-09.

Clear winner

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 32.60
Total cost: $521

MetaMuse Ember (Max)On the frontier

Intelligence: 36.00
Total cost: $117

Verdict

Pick Muse Ember (Max)

Muse Ember (Max) vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max): 10.4% more intelligence, 77.5% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and end-to-end time not fully reported.

Metric	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)	Muse Ember (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	32.6	36.0	+10.4% Muse Ember (Max) is 10.4% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$520.63	$117.12	−77.5% Muse Ember (Max) is 77.5% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	18.81s	Not reported	— not comparable
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.30 / $1.20	$0.10 / $0.50
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

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