DeepSeek V4 Flash — API Pricing & Benchmarks
DeepSeek V4 Flash is DeepSeek's retired reasoning model, released in 2026-07 and withdrawn from the API in 2026-09. Its final list price was $0.44 per 1M input tokens and $1.32 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M-token context window. This page is kept as a historical reference.
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| Provider | DeepSeek |
| Status | retired 2026-09 — no longer sold |
| Input price / 1M tokens | $0.44 |
| Output price / 1M tokens | $1.32 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.01 |
| Blended price (3:1) | $0.66 |
| Context window | 1M |
| Max output tokens | 384K |
| Knowledge cutoff | — |
| License | open weights |
| Input modalities | T |
| Output speed (tok/s) | 136 |
| Released | 2026-07 |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 34.3 |
| LMArena Elo | 1432 |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 38.6% |
Where DeepSeek V4 Flash fits
DeepSeek retired DeepSeek V4 Flash in 2026-09; it can no longer be purchased through the standard API, and the prices on this page are its final list prices, kept for reference. If you're migrating an integration, the alternatives below are current models at a similar price point.
Price history
| Period | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Cached $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 → 2026-08-16 | $0.14 | $0.28 | $0.0028 |
| 2026-08-16 → current | $0.44 | $1.32 | $0.01 |
List-price changes recorded by this site. The full dataset is public: price-history.json (CC BY 4.0).
Alternatives at a similar price
- GPT-4.1 mini (OpenAI) — $0.70/1M blended, AA Index 10.2
- Qwen3.7-Plus (Alibaba Qwen) — $0.70/1M blended, AA Index 25.2
- Mistral Large 3 (Mistral AI) — $0.75/1M blended, AA Index 9.3
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Google) — $0.56/1M blended, AA Index 15.6
About DeepSeek
DeepSeek publishes open-weights models at disruptive prices. Even after its August 2026 switch to peak/off-peak billing, the V4 line costs a fraction of Western equivalents, off-peak hours (everything outside 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC on weekdays) halve the bill again, and V4.1 Flash added native vision in September at $0.30/$1.20 peak.