diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/model-status-label.test.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/model-status-label.test.ts
index 6f3f75681e..54150daca5 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/model-status-label.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/model-status-label.test.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ describe('model-status-label', () => {
     expect(displayModelName('anthropic/claude-opus-4.8-fast')).toBe('Opus 4.8')
     expect(displayModelName('openai/gpt-5.5-fast')).toBe('GPT-5.5')
     expect(displayModelName('deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-thinking')).toBe('Deepseek V4 Pro')
+    expect(displayModelName('deepseek/deepseek-flash')).toBe('DeepSeek V4.1 Flash')
     expect(displayModelName('openai/gpt-5.5')).toBe('GPT-5.5')
   })
 
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/model-status-label.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/model-status-label.ts
index 38e9430163..eff96c4f44 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/model-status-label.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/model-status-label.ts
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ const VARIANT_TAGS: ReadonlyArray<readonly [RegExp, string]> = [
 const titleCase = (text: string): string => text.replace(/\b\w/g, char => char.toUpperCase()).trim()
 
 function prettifyBase(base: string): string {
+  if (/^deepseek-flash$/i.test(base)) {
+    return 'DeepSeek V4.1 Flash'
+  }
+
   if (/^claude-/i.test(base)) {
     // Anthropic ids spell the version with hyphens (`haiku-4-5`, `fable-5-1`);
     // the human name is dotted ("Haiku 4.5"), not "Haiku 4 5".
diff --git a/hermes_cli/models.py b/hermes_cli/models.py
index b31397f648..be8267f7a2 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/models.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/models.py
@@ -1266,8 +1266,7 @@ def _model_dedup_key(model_id: str) -> str:
 
 
 def _merge_with_models_dev(provider: str, curated: list[str]) -> list[str]:
-    """models.dev entries first (their order), then curated-only extras, case-insensitively deduped
-    while preserving curated casing. Curated unchanged when models.dev is unreachable/empty."""
+    """Merge registry additions, with native DeepSeek's live names authoritative."""
     try:
         from agent.models_dev import list_agentic_models
         mdev = list_agentic_models(provider)
@@ -1275,6 +1274,10 @@ def _merge_with_models_dev(provider: str, curated: list[str]) -> list[str]:
         mdev = []
     if not mdev:
         return list(curated)
+    if normalize_provider(provider) == "deepseek":
+        retired = {"deepseek-v4-flash", "deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp"}
+        mdev = [model for model in mdev if model.lower() not in retired]
+        return _merge_unique([], mdev + list(curated), key=_model_dedup_key)
     return _merge_unique(_merge_unique([], mdev), curated)
 
 
diff --git a/hermes_cli/models_catalog_static.py b/hermes_cli/models_catalog_static.py
index 33e961ebf0..fe79673652 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/models_catalog_static.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/models_catalog_static.py
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ _PROVIDER_MODELS: dict[str, list[str]] = {
         "claude-sonnet-4-6", "claude-opus-4-5-20251101", "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929",
         "claude-opus-4-20250514", "claude-sonnet-4-20250514", "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001",
     ],
-    "deepseek": ["deepseek-v4-pro", "deepseek-flash"],
+    "deepseek": ["deepseek-flash", "deepseek-v4-pro"],
     "xiaomi": ["mimo-v2.5-pro", "mimo-v2.5", "mimo-v2-pro", "mimo-v2-omni", "mimo-v2-flash"],
     "tencent-tokenhub": list(_TENCENT_MODELS),
     "tencent-tokenplan": list(_TENCENT_MODELS),
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ _OPENAI_FAST_MODE_PREFIXES: tuple[str, ...] = ("gpt-", "o1", "o3", "o4")
 # /models are the subscription-tier source of truth), and providers with dedicated live-endpoint
 # branches (copilot, anthropic, ai-gateway, ollama-cloud, custom, stepfun, openai-codex).
 _MODELS_DEV_PREFERRED: frozenset[str] = frozenset({
-    "opencode-go", "opencode-zen", "deepseek", "kilocode", "fireworks", "mistral", "togetherai", "cohere",
+    "opencode-go", "opencode-zen", "kilocode", "fireworks", "mistral", "togetherai", "cohere",
     "perplexity", "groq", "nvidia", "huggingface", "zai", "gemini", "google", "xai", "xai-oauth",
 })
 
diff --git a/tests/hermes_cli/test_models_dev_preferred_merge.py b/tests/hermes_cli/test_models_dev_preferred_merge.py
index 095f9d6769..2da007c96a 100644
--- a/tests/hermes_cli/test_models_dev_preferred_merge.py
+++ b/tests/hermes_cli/test_models_dev_preferred_merge.py
@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ from hermes_cli.models import (
 
 
 class TestMergeHelper:
+    def test_deepseek_merge_omits_retired_ids_and_puts_live_models_first(self):
+        with patch(
+            "agent.models_dev.list_agentic_models",
+            return_value=["deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp", "deepseek-v4-flash", "deepseek-flash", "deepseek-v4-pro"],
+        ):
+            out = _merge_with_models_dev("deepseek", ["deepseek-v4-pro", "deepseek-flash"])
+
+        assert out == ["deepseek-flash", "deepseek-v4-pro"]
+
     def test_merge_empty_mdev_returns_curated(self):
         """When models.dev returns nothing, curated list is preserved verbatim."""
         with patch("agent.models_dev.list_agentic_models", return_value=[]):