DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

DeepSeek released 2026-04-24

$0.061 per million tokens, balanced

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

Intelligence42.1
Coding56.2
Agentic33.7
LMArena Elo1431.6default

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 window1.0M
Max output384K
Input modestext
Tool useyes
Reasoningoptional
Open weightsyes

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-08-24
Quality dataverified
Cross-checkedvendor 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...

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