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The DeepSeek API offers three effort levels—low, high (default) and max—which the V4.1 Flash paper maps to internal effort values of 50, 75 and 100, and reports that going from high to max lengthens agent trajectories by 1.6–1.8 times while yielding only marginal gains.
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10/19/2026
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