DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
DeepSeek released 2026-04-24
Nothing is both better and cheaper.
Under a balanced workload, no other model in the catalogue scores higher and costs less. This model is on the value frontier.
Every price dimension
| Input | $0.049/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.098/M |
| Cached input | $0.0098/M |
Price varies by time of day. Listed rate is the PEAK rate. Off-peak is 50% lower ($0.22 input / $0.007 cache hit / $0.66 output).
Independent scores
| Intelligence | 42.1 |
|---|---|
| Coding | 56.2 |
| Agentic | 33.7 |
| LMArena Elo | 1431.6default |
Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.
Best rankings by task
- svg #32of 98 1195
Capability
| Context window | 1.0M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 384K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | yes |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |
DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for fast inference and...