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title: "Comment by Yunus Emre Vurgun on \"DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Compresses Agent Trajectories: What Open Weights Mean for Campus Compute Budgets\" | Hashnode"
description: "Worth adding for anyone budgeting from this: fewer generated tokens per agent task doesn't always mean lower cost, because in multi-step runs the input side (th"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-compresses-agent-trajectories-what-open-weights-mean-for-campus-compute-budgets/6ad413aa88c4c7a7463dac96)

Comment [DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Compresses Agent Trajectories: What Open Weights Mean for Campus Compute Budgets](https://hashnode.com/posts/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-compresses-agent-trajectories-what-open-weights-mean-for-campus-compute-budgets/6ad413aa88c4c7a7463dac96)

[Yunus Emre Vurgun](https://hashnode.com/@yunusemrevurgun)

[Oct 18](https://hashnode.com/posts/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-compresses-agent-trajectories-what-open-weights-mean-for-campus-compute-budgets/6ad413aa88c4c7a7463dac96/comment/6ad458b314ee79bfe979a7da)

Worth adding for anyone budgeting from this: fewer generated tokens per agent task doesn't always mean lower cost, because in multi-step runs the input side (the growing context resent every step) often costs more than the output. Before switching, I'd measure input tokens, output tokens and number of steps on a few of your real workloads. Also check the task success rate, since a shorter run that fails more often ends up costing more.