# Suhail Doshi launches Particle to cut coding agents' token use > Source: > Published: 2026-10-28 18:21:38+00:00 # Suhail Doshi launches Particle to cut coding agents' token use **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.** By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket) · Published Primary source: [x.com](https://x.com/Suhail/status/2115497949421883648) ## Why it matters Particle 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. [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.… When 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.