DeepSeek V4-Flash

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Capability profile

Operator guidance

The default V4 choice for cost- and latency-sensitive long-context and agentic work. Step up to V4-Pro when reasoning/coding ceiling matters more than cost. Against GLM-5.2 (the other MIT Chinese-lab flagship added in the same registry batch), V4-Flash is cheaper with the same 1M context; GLM-5.2 has more (vendor-reported) coding-benchmark signal.

Use cases

• Very-long-context tasks (whole codebases, large document sets) at low cost — the V4 generation's core pitch
• Agentic coding and tool-use workflows via the Responses API
• High-volume production workloads where the cache-hit discount and low token price compound
• Self-hosted deployment under MIT for data-control requirements

Limitations

• DeepSeek did not publish a V4-Flash-specific benchmark table; capability ratings lean on independent coverage and the V4 tech report's general claims, not verified Flash-tier numbers
• Architecture details (active-parameter count, Compressed Sparse Attention) are from independent technical coverage, not DeepSeek's own docs
• GA-date and snapshot naming vary across sources by a few weeks (V4-Flash-0731 etc.)
• An announced peak/off-peak pricing policy is not yet live and not reflected in the registry

Citations

• DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence (arXiv:2606.19348)
• deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash (Hugging Face)
• DeepSeek API pricing