The thermal deformation difference of two phases for duplex stainless steel (DSS) makes hot working difficult, 2101 DSS substitute Mn, N for Ni to stabilize austenite phase, which will significantly affect hot deformation behavior. Hot compression tests in the temperature ranging from 1123 to 1423 K and strain rate ranging from 0.001 to 10 s^-1 were carried out on a Gleeble-3800 thermal simulator for 2101 DSS. At the same strain rate, the flow curve characteristics of 2101 DSS changed from dynamic recrystallization (DRX) to dynamic recovery with increasing deformation temperature. Increasing deformation stain rate from 0.001 s^-1 to 0.01 and 0.1 s^-1 increased DRX temperature range, but higher strain rate of 1 and 10 s^-1 is not beneficial to DRX occurrence. In the deformation temperature region of 1253~1323 K and low strain rate of 0.001~0.1 s^-1, the smaller strain value corresponding to the peak stress, the austenite DRX is more likely to occur, which is beneficial to the equiaxed recrystallized grains formation. At low strain rate, the recrystallization grain grows up with the increase of deformation temperature, the worse effect of austenite DRX is related to weakened austenite stabilized ability of Mn substitution for Ni at high Zener-Hollomon parameter values. Based on the thermal deformation equation, the apparent activation energy Q was calculated as 464.49 kJ/mol, which is slightly higher than that of 2205 DSS, and the constitutive equation of the peak flow stress was established. By combining with flow curve and microstructure analysis, the processing map exhibits the optimum processing conditions are in deformation temperature ranging from 1220 to 1350 K and strain rate ranging from 0.001 to 0.1 s^-1 with high power dissipation coefficient of 0.40~0.47, under which the austenite DRX obviously occurred.