DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V4 Flash

The fast, low-cost V4 tier for high-volume tasks, available across inference gateways.

ActiveReleased April 24, 2026Available from 29 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: DeepSeek API models, DeepSeek models, Metadata verification, Field resolution verification

Price per 1M tokens
$0.14 in / $0.28 out
Context window131,072
Max output32,768
Cache read$0.028 / M
Batch discount-50%
ModalitiesText → Text
Priced across29 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRateBatch
Input$0.14 / M$0.07 / M
Output$0.28 / M$0.14 / M
Cache read$0.028 / Mn/a

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$44.80
at current list prices
Fresh input$28.00
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$16.80
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
Fireworks AI
$0.14$0.28$0.028✓Direct
DigitalOceanLowest
$0.0679$0.168$0.0168—via OpenRouter
Openinference
$0.07$0.18$0.028—via OpenRouter
GMICloud
$0.084$0.168$0.0168—via OpenRouter
DeepInfra
$0.09$0.18$0.018—via OpenRouter
Sail-research
$0.09$0.18$0.02—via OpenRouter
StreamLake
$0.09366$0.18732$0.018732—via OpenRouter
Akashml
$0.098$0.196$0.014—via OpenRouter
Baidu
$0.0983$0.1966$0.0197—via OpenRouter
Alibaba
$0.134$0.268$0.0268—via OpenRouter
SiliconFlow
$0.13$0.28$0.028—via OpenRouter
Venice
$0.138$0.275$0.028—via OpenRouter
Morph
$0.139$0.278$0.07—via OpenRouter
Ambient
$0.14$0.28$0.028—via OpenRouter
AtlasCloud
$0.14$0.28$0.028—via OpenRouter
Coreweave
$0.14$0.28$0.07—via OpenRouter
Fireworks AI
$0.14$0.28$0.028—via OpenRouter
Ionstream
$0.14$0.28$0.07—via OpenRouter
Novita
$0.14$0.28$0.028—via OpenRouter
Parasail
$0.14$0.28$0.07—via OpenRouter
Wandb
$0.14$0.28$0.07—via OpenRouter
NextBit
$0.18$0.35$0.035—via OpenRouter
Mancer-2
$0.14$0.45——via OpenRouter
Phala
$0.2$0.4$0.07—via OpenRouter
Io-net
$0.239$0.379$0.099—via OpenRouter
Azure AI Foundry
$0.19$0.51$0.028—Direct
Azure AI Foundry · Data zone
$0.21$0.56$0.031—Direct
DeepSeek
$0.22$0.66$0.007—via OpenRouter
Cloudflare
$0.44$1.32$0.014—via OpenRouter

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
May 21, 2026 – July 10, 2026$0.14 / $0.28past
July 10, 2026$0.14 / $0.28current

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$0.269 / $0.4 in / out per 1M
DeepSeek-V3.1
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$0.25 / $0.95 in / out per 1M
DeepSeek-V3
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$0.2574 / $1.03 in / out per 1M
DeepSeek-R1
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$0.5 / $2.15 in / out per 1M

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