Overview
deepseek-v4-flash is the fast variant in DeepSeek’s V4 lineup (April 2026). 284B total / 13B active MoE, MIT license. Same V4 family behavior at a fraction of the cost — built for general work, coding, and long-context bulk tasks where you want value over flagship quality.
Specs
Pricing
Use this when
- You want strong V4-family behavior at the lowest possible price.
- You need 1M context for long documents or large repos but don’t want flagship cost.
- You’re running high-volume coding or extraction workloads.
- You want a default cheap model that still handles tools and reasoning.
Pick something else when
- You need the strongest V4 quality: use
deepseek-v4-pro. - You want the best general default overall: use
qwen-3.6-plus. - You want the previous-gen DeepSeek flagship at value pricing: use
deepseek-v3. - You need vision / multimodal input: use
gemma-4-31borkimi-k2.6.