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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeekReleased Apr 24, 2026Open weights · MITdeepseek-v4-flash

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Intelligence (Epoch)
155 · 29th of 111
Reasoning
yes, with effort levels
Knowledge cutoff
March 2026
Context
1M tokens
Max output
393k tokens
Input
text
API features
tools, structured outputs, JSON mode, seed, logprobs
DeepSeek's API
yes, as deepseek-v4-flash

Read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from DeepSeek · cutoff: aiknowledgecutoff.com

Lowest input, per M$0.05at Reka
Cheapest cache, per M$0.0042at StreamLake
Fastest245 tok/sat BaseTen, on OpenRouter
Providers25serve this version

The cheapest host, Relace, serves fp4 weights (maker: fp8). Cheapest at the maker's precision and context: DeepInfra, $0.24 blended. Weights and context per host

Intelligence for the price

On the best-deal line: no model scores higher for less than $0.21 per M.

100120140160180$0.10$1$10$100GPT-4o mini: 126 at $0.75gpt-oss-20b: 138 at $0.12GPT-4.1 mini: 135 at $2.00Gemini 3.6 Flash: 155 at $4.50Llama 3.3 70B: 127 at $0.42Llama 3.1 8B: 116 at $0.06gpt-oss-120b: 140 at $0.18DeepSeek Chat: 146 at $1.21DeepSeek R1: 139 at $2.65Llama 4 Scout: 130 at $0.40Llama 4 Maverick: 132 at $1.00Qwen 2.5 72B: 129 at $0.76Gemma 3 27B: 130 at $0.24DeepSeek V3.2: 146 at $0.52Kimi K2.6: 151 at $2.40GLM 5.2: 152 at $2.36Qwen3.8 27B: 152 at $1.29Gemini 3.8 Flash: 157 at $4.50Gemini 3.7 Flash: 158 at $4.50Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: 145 at $2.80DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 156 at $2.50DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 156 at $0.47GLM-5.3: 156 at $2.36Grok 4.6: 157 at $8.00Grok 4.7: 154 at $8.00Grok 4.5: 154 at $8.00Claude Opus 5: 164 at $30.00Claude Opus 5.5: 169 at $24.00Claude Sonnet 5: 157 at $12.00Claude Fable 5: 163 at $60.00Claude Fable 5.1: 166 at $60.00GPT-6 Astra: 169 at $60.00GPT-6 Sol: 164 at $12.00GPT-6 Luna: 157 at $0.60GPT-5.6 Sol: 163 at $24.00GPT-5.6 Terra: 160 at $14.00GPT-5.6 Luna: 156 at $1.40GLM-5.3-Flash: 153 at $0.19Kimi K3: 158 at $11.35DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423: 149 at $2.40Kimi K2.7 Code: 150 at $3.71DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423: 146 at $0.21GLM 5.1: 150 at $4.00Gemma 4 31B: 143 at $0.38MiniMax-M3: 147 at $1.19Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507: 139 at $0.44Qwen3.6 35B A3B: 144 at $1.00MiniMax M2.7: 146 at $1.05Qwen3.5 397B A17B: 147 at $3.45GLM 5: 146 at $2.52Gemma 4 26B A4B: 142 at $0.26MiniMax M2.5: 147 at $1.22Qwen3.5-35B-A3B: 142 at $1.14Kimi K2.5: 148 at $2.70DeepSeek V3.1: 140 at $1.20Qwen3.6 27B: 146 at $2.25GLM 4.7: 144 at $2.15Qwen3.5 9B: 139 at $0.25Qwen3 30B A3B: 136 at $0.24Nemotron 3 Ultra: 146 at $2.70Mistral Nemo: 119 at $0.038Mistral Medium 3.5: 141 at $9.00DeepSeek V3.2 Exp: 145 at $0.34Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: 144 at $2.53Mistral Medium 3: 134 at $2.40Qwen3 14B: 138 at $0.32Llama 3.1 70B Instruct: 126 at $0.80Mixtral 8x22B Instruct: 122 at $8.00Kimi K2 Thinking: 146 at $3.10Qwen3 32B: 138 at $0.36DeepSeek V3: 132 at $1.21Inkling: 148 at $5.00Inkling Small: 150 at $1.65Qwen3 Max: 142 at $7.20Gemma 3 12B: 124 at $0.15Qwen3.8 Max: 157 at $8.00Qwen3.7 Max: 154 at $5.00Qwen3.7 Flash: 144 at $0.16Qwen3.7 Plus: 147 at $2.00Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20: 146 at $2.80Qwen3.6 Flash: 143 at $1.75Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 149 at $9.10Qwen3.6 Plus: 147 at $3.50Qwen3.5-Flash: 144 at $0.50Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507: 140 at $2.60Qwen3 8B: 136 at $0.88Mistral Small 3.1 24B: 128 at $0.91Gemma 3 4B: 116 at $0.09Phi 4: 130 at $0.21Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct: 119 at $1.66Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 119 at $0.30Command R+ (08-2024): 119 at $12.50Gemma 2 27B: 122 at $1.30Claude Sonnet 5.5: 166 at $12.00GPT-6.1 Sol: 168 at $12.00Gemini 4 Argon: 166 at $12.00Mistral Large 4: 150 at $5.54Claude Haiku 5.5: 159 at $0.60Muse Wonder: 162 at $24.00Muse Spark 1.3: 157 at $5.50Muse Spark Open: 155 at $5.50GPT-4.1: 137 at $10.00GPT-5.3 Codex: 157 at $15.75Claude Opus 4.1: 144 at $90.00Claude Sonnet 4.5: 147 at $18.00Claude Haiku 4.5: 142 at $6.00Gemini 2.5 Pro: 145 at $11.25Gemini 2.5 Flash: 141 at $2.80Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 155 at $14.00Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 152 at $3.50DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · 155

Epoch Capabilities Index against the lowest input + output price per M, log scale · prices Oct 23. Score: Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0, 155 with an interval of 152 to 157.

Against its rivals

The best of its price range and the top score

Bars: Epoch Capabilities Index (Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0), drawn from 100, below the lowest score in the catalogue · price: lowest input + output per M.

Speed by provider

Output speed of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 at each host, fastest first (the 10 fastest of 20)

Speed: OpenRouter, median of the last 30 min, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · a snapshot of real traffic before the daily read, not a daily average · bars from zero.

Run it yourself

open weights, MIT · fits 1 of the 6 workstations in our guideSelf-host guide ›
Parameters
284B
13B active per token (MoE)
Memory needed
170 GB
in INT4 · 341 GB in INT8
Smallest cloud setup
4× H100
320 GB · $8.60/h, about $6,278 a month
Worth it above
30B tokens
a month, against the cheapest API at $0.21 per M
QuantizationMemorySmallest cloud GPUQuality
INT4 (Q4)170 GB4× H100 · $8.60/hsmallest footprint, minor quality loss
INT8 (Q8)341 GB8× H100 · $17.20/hnear-lossless
FP16 (full)682 GBmulti-node, over 640 GBreference quality

At home: in INT4 it fits a Mac Studio M5 Ultra (256 GB unified), about $9,499 once, or $0.3615/h over 3 years, electricity aside; it pays for itself after about 45B tokens against the cheapest API.

Memory ≈ parameters × bytes per parameter × 1.2 · cloud price: on-demand rate, running 24/7 · builds: GGUF, AWQ, MLX, GPTQ, Ollama · break-even calculator

Sorted by cache price
ProviderInputOutputCache ↑tok/sFirst tokenUptime 24hChecked
StreamLakefp8 · 1000K ctx · 375K out−70%reprices often$0.13$0.40$0.0042421.93 s99.9%Oct 23
DeepSeekprecision not stated · 1M ctx · 375K out$0.22$0.66$0.007———Sep 9
GMICloudfp8 · 1.05M ctx−35%$0.29$0.86$0.0091762.18 s100%Oct 23
Relacefp4 (fp8) · 1M ctxreprices often$0.07$0.14$0.014750.38 s100%Oct 23
Baidufp8 · 1M ctx · 128K outreprices often$0.44$1.32$0.014611.15 s100%Oct 23
Cloudflareprecision not stated · 1M ctx$0.44$1.32$0.014730.72 s99.9%Oct 23
DeepInfrafp8 · 1M ctx · 375K out$0.06$0.18$0.015570.46 s100%Oct 23
AkashMLprecision not stated · 1M ctx$0.065$0.18$0.016———Sep 5
Rekaprecision not read: host terms · 256K ctx (1M) · 128K out$0.05$0.53$0.02500.93 s100%Oct 23
Inceptronfp4 (fp8) · 1M ctxreprices often$0.11$0.41$0.027540.88 s99.8%Oct 23
BaseTenfp8 · 1M ctx · 375K out$0.13$0.26$0.0282450.27 s99.9%Oct 23
Veniceprecision not read: host terms · 1M ctx · 32K out$0.13$0.26$0.028680.96 s100%Oct 23
DigitalOcean1M ctx$0.14$0.28$0.0281280.73 s100%Oct 23
SiliconFlowfp8 · 1M ctx · 384K out$0.22$0.66$0.028251.49 s100%Oct 23
Phalaprecision not read: host terms · 1M ctx · 384K out$0.44$1.32$0.028682.34 s100%Oct 23
Novita AIfp8 · 1M ctx · 384K out$0.44$1.32$0.028———Oct 23
AtlasCloudfp4 (fp8) · 1M ctx · 384K out$0.44$1.32$0.028481.36 s100%Oct 23
Together AInvfp4 (fp8) · 1M ctx$0.14$0.28$0.03760.62 s100%Oct 23
Azure OpenAI1M ctx · 375K out$0.21$0.56$0.031641.15 s95.0%Oct 23
Alibabaprecision not read: host terms · 1M ctx · 384K out$0.35$1.06$0.0352581.53 s98.9%Oct 23
Morphbf16 (fp8) · 1M ctx$0.14$0.40$0.036———Oct 23
Parasailfp8 · 1M ctx$0.14$0.28$0.05840.60 s99.7%Oct 23
CoreWeavefp8 · 256K ctx (1M)$0.13$0.28$0.071300.39 s100%Oct 23
Cohereprecision not read: host terms · 1M ctx · 375K out$0.14$0.28$0.071720.39 s100%Oct 23
Nebiusfp8 · 1000K ctx$0.14$0.28———55.1%Oct 6

10 of 25 providers · prices per million tokens, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · speed: OpenRouter, median of the last 30 min, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · uptime: OpenRouter, last 24 h · −N%: a discount off the host's list price · under each host: weights precision, context and max output as served, the maker's value in brackets when the host's differs

ProviderWeightsContextMax outputToolsStructured outputsReasoning
Relacefp41Mnot stated by the hostyesnoyes
DeepInfrafp81M375Kyesyesyes
AkashMLnot stated by the host1Mnot stated by the host———
BaseTenfp81M375Kyesnoyes
Venicenot read: host terms1M32Kyesyesyes
CoreWeavefp8256Knot checked yetyesyesyes
DigitalOceannot checked yet1Mnot checked yetyesyesyes
Together AInvfp41Mnot stated by the hostyesyesyes
Parasailfp81Mnot read: host termsyesyesyes
Nebiusfp81000Knot stated by the host———
Coherenot read: host terms1M375Kyesyesyes
Inceptronfp41Mnot stated by the hostyesyesyes
StreamLakefp81000K375Kyesnoyes
Morphbf161Mnot stated by the host———
Rekanot read: host terms256K128Kyesyesyes
Azure OpenAInot checked yet1M375Kyesnoyes
SiliconFlowfp81M384Kyesyesyes
DeepSeeknot stated by the host1M375K———
GMICloudfp81.05Mnot read: host termsyesnoyes
Alibabanot read: host terms1M384Kyesyesyes
Baidufp81M128Kyesyesyes
Phalanot read: host terms1M384Kyesyesyes
Novita AIfp81M384Kyesnoyes
AtlasCloudfp41M384Kyesyesyes
Cloudflarenot stated by the host1Mnot stated by the hostyesyesyes

Weights, context and max output: read at each host's own catalogue or docs where its terms allow, otherwise as the host declares to OpenRouter; hover a cell for its source and date · tools, structured outputs, reasoning: as declared to OpenRouter · not verified by us

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 spec sheet, field by field, with sources

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 spec sheetmaker-declared

What DeepSeek declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.

Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Parameters
304,180,418,494≈ 304.2B
Active experts
6 of 256 active per token
Weight precision
fp8
License
MIT — open weights, permissivecurated · read 2026-09-07Scope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
Knowledge cutoff
not published by the maker≈ March 2026 third-party estimate — not the maker's figurecurated
Modalities
text
Max output (official)
to verify
Release date
to verify≈ July 31, 2026 third-party catalogue — not the maker's figure
Maker lifecycle status
Retired · superseded by DeepSeek V4.1 Flashmaker's docs · read 2026-09-10

Also declared in the weights

Architecture class
DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
Layers
43
Vocabulary
129,280 tokens
Weights first published
July 31, 2026
Weights last updated
August 1, 2026

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · config.json @ 7872f01 · read 2026-10-21 · 7 of 10 fields published by the maker

DateProviderInputOutputChange
Oct 23Baidu$0.0444 → $0.44$0.13 → $1.32+890%
Oct 23Inceptron$0.11 → $0.11$0.37 → $0.41+10%
Oct 23Phala$0.31 → $0.44$0.92 → $1.32+43%
Oct 22Baidu$0.44 → $0.0444$1.32 → $0.13−90%
Oct 22Inceptron$0.13 → $0.11$0.45 → $0.37−17%
Oct 22Reka$0.021 → $0.05$0.53 → $0.53+5%
Oct 22StreamLake$0.0826 → $0.13$0.17 → $0.40+113%
Oct 21Inceptron$0.13 → $0.13$0.40 → $0.45+9%
Oct 19Baidu$0.0598 → $0.44$0.18 → $1.32+635%
Oct 19Inceptron$0.13 → $0.13$0.48 → $0.40−13%
Oct 19StreamLake$0.028 → $0.0826$0.056 → $0.17+195%
Oct 18Inceptron$0.13 → $0.13$0.60 → $0.48−16%
Oct 17Baidu$0.44 → $0.0598$1.32 → $0.18−86%
Oct 17Inceptron$0.14 → $0.13$0.60 → $0.60−1%
Oct 17StreamLake$0.0826 → $0.028$0.17 → $0.056−66%
Oct 16Inceptron$0.13 → $0.14$0.60 → $0.60+1%
Oct 15Inceptron$0.15 → $0.13$0.60 → $0.60−2%
Oct 13Inceptron$0.13 → $0.15$0.60 → $0.60+2%
Oct 12Baidu$0.13 → $0.44$0.39 → $1.32+239%
Oct 12Inceptron$0.17 → $0.13$0.60 → $0.60−4%
Oct 11Baidu$0.44 → $0.13$1.32 → $0.39−70%
Oct 11Inceptron$0.0533 → $0.17$0.60 → $0.60+17%
Oct 10Inceptron$0.05 → $0.0533$0.65 → $0.60−7%
Oct 9StreamLake$0.07 → $0.0826$0.14 → $0.17+18%
Oct 8StreamLake$0.042 → $0.07$0.084 → $0.14+67%
Oct 8Venice$0.17 → $0.13$0.35 → $0.26−26%
Oct 5StreamLake$0.028 → $0.042$0.056 → $0.084+50%
Oct 3StreamLake$0.042 → $0.028$0.084 → $0.056−33%
Oct 1AtlasCloud$0.16 → $0.44$0.48 → $1.32+178%
Oct 1Inceptron$0.056 → $0.05$0.65 → $0.65−1%
Oct 1StreamLake$0.0819 → $0.042$0.16 → $0.084−49%
Sep 30Inceptron$0.056 → $0.056$0.36 → $0.65+68%
Sep 30StreamLake$0.0886 → $0.0819$0.18 → $0.16−8%
Sep 29AtlasCloud$0.44 → $0.16$1.32 → $0.48−64%
Sep 29Inceptron$0.039 → $0.056$0.40 → $0.36−4%
Sep 28Baidu$0.13 → $0.44$0.39 → $1.32+239%
Sep 28Inceptron$0.0828 → $0.039$0.41 → $0.40−12%
Sep 28Reka$0.088 → $0.021$0.53 → $0.53−11%
Sep 28StreamLake$0.047 → $0.0886$0.0941 → $0.18+88%
Sep 27Baidu$0.0598 → $0.13$0.18 → $0.39+117%
Sep 26Baidu$0.44 → $0.0598$1.32 → $0.18−86%
Sep 26StreamLake$0.049 → $0.047$0.098 → $0.0941−4%
Sep 25StreamLake$0.0886 → $0.049$0.18 → $0.098−45%
Sep 24Inceptron$0.06 → $0.0828$0.30 → $0.41+38%
Sep 22Alibaba$0.18 → $0.35$0.53 → $1.06+100%
Sep 22Baidu$0.048 → $0.44$0.14 → $1.32+817%
Sep 22Inceptron$0.08 → $0.06$0.20 → $0.30+29%
Sep 21Reka$0.11 → $0.088$0.66 → $0.53−20%
Sep 21StreamLake$0.0367 → $0.0886$0.0734 → $0.18+141%
Sep 20StreamLake$0.0473 → $0.0367$0.0946 → $0.0734−22%
Sep 19Baidu$0.44 → $0.048$1.32 → $0.14−89%
Sep 19StreamLake$0.0484 → $0.0473$0.0969 → $0.0946−2%
Sep 18Alibaba$0.35 → $0.18$1.06 → $0.53−50%
Sep 18Inceptron$0.0606 → $0.08$0.20 → $0.20+6%
Sep 18StreamLake$0.0886 → $0.0484$0.18 → $0.0969−45%
Sep 17Inceptron$0.0549 → $0.0606$0.17 → $0.20+15%
Sep 16StreamLake$0.0855 → $0.0886$0.17 → $0.18+4%
Sep 15Baidu$0.0352 → $0.44$0.11 → $1.32+1150%
Sep 15StreamLake$0.0886 → $0.0855$0.18 → $0.17−3%
Sep 14StreamLake$0.0498 → $0.0886$0.0997 → $0.18+78%
Sep 13Baidu$0.44 → $0.0352$1.32 → $0.11−92%
Sep 13StreamLake$0.0668 → $0.0498$0.13 → $0.0997−25%
Sep 12StreamLake$0.0886 → $0.0668$0.18 → $0.13−25%
Sep 10Baidu$0.14 → $0.44$0.28 → $1.32+319%
Sep 8GMICloud$0.35 → $0.29$1.06 → $0.86−19%
Sep 7Baidu$0.05 → $0.14$0.10 → $0.28+180%
Sep 7DeepInfra$0.08 → $0.06$0.18 → $0.18−8%
Sep 7Novita AI$0.41 → $0.44$1.23 → $1.32+8%
Sep 5Alibaba$0.18 → $0.35$0.53 → $1.06+100%
Sep 5Baidu$0.065 → $0.05$0.13 → $0.10−23%
Sep 5Novita AI$0.44 → $0.41$1.32 → $1.23−7%

Every published change of input or output price, newest first · change on input + output · full series: pricing-history.csv.

ProviderChatbot 1,000 in / 500 outRAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 outBatch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out
Relace$0.14$0.63$0.42
DeepInfra$0.15$0.57$0.42
AkashML$0.15$0.61$0.44
BaseTen$0.26$1.17$0.78
Venice$0.26$1.17$0.78
CoreWeave$0.27$1.18$0.80
DigitalOcean$0.28$1.26$0.84
Together AI$0.28$1.26$0.84
Parasail$0.28$1.26$0.84
Nebius$0.28$1.26$0.84
Cohere$0.28$1.26$0.84
Inceptron$0.32$1.09$0.85
StreamLake$0.33$1.25$0.92
Morph$0.34$1.34$0.97
Reka$0.31$0.66$0.73
Azure OpenAI$0.49$1.96$1.40
SiliconFlow$0.55$2.09$1.54
DeepSeek$0.55$2.09$1.54
GMICloud$0.72$2.72$2.00
Alibaba$0.88$3.34$2.46
Baidu$1.10$4.18$3.08
Phala$1.10$4.18$3.08
Novita AI$1.10$4.18$3.08
AtlasCloud$1.10$4.18$3.08
Cloudflare$1.10$4.18$3.08

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