{"slug": "suhail-doshi-launches-particle-to-cut-coding-agents-token-use", "title": "Suhail Doshi launches Particle to cut coding agents' token use", "summary": "Suhail Doshi launched Particle on October 28 with Particle-1, a post-trained version of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash that the company says completed coding and data-engineering tasks using fewer output tokens than its base model across four software and data-engineering benchmarks. Particle offers Particle-1 through an API at the same per-token rates as DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, betting that lower token use on coding tasks can give it a durable API advantage. Doshi previously co-founded Mixpanel after interning at Slide and later founded the AI creative-tools company Playground.", "body_md": "# Suhail Doshi launches Particle to cut coding agents' token use\n\n**Particle-1 is a post-trained version of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, available through an API; Particle says it used fewer tokens across four software and data-engineering benchmarks.**\n\n        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [x.com](https://x.com/Suhail/status/2115497949421883648)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nParticle is selling efficiency gained through post-training while charging the same per-token rates as its base model. Its launch tests whether lower token use on coding tasks can give Particle a durable API advantage.\n\n[Suhail Doshi](https://x.com/Suhail) launched Particle on October 28th with Particle-1, a developer-focused model that the company says completed coding and data-engineering tasks using fewer output tokens than its underlying model. Doshi saw the need for product-usage analytics while interning at Slide, then co-founded Mixpanel. He later founded Playground, an AI creative-tools company. Particle moves him into model training and inference infrastructure.…\n\nWhen you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suhail-doshi-launches-particle-to-cut-coding-agents-token-use", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/suhail-doshi-particle-particle-1", "published_at": "2026-10-28 18:21:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 21:44:09.419517+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Particle", "Suhail Doshi", "Particle-1", "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash", "Mixpanel", "Playground", "Slide"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suhail-doshi-launches-particle-to-cut-coding-agents-token-use", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suhail-doshi-launches-particle-to-cut-coding-agents-token-use.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suhail-doshi-launches-particle-to-cut-coding-agents-token-use.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suhail-doshi-launches-particle-to-cut-coding-agents-token-use.jsonld"}}