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DeepSeek V4-Flash

DeepSeek V4-Flash — Especificações

Compiled by Mustafa Ihsan from the vendor’s published documentation · Last updated

Desenvolvedor DeepSeek
Tipo LLM (MoE)
Modalidade Texto → Texto
Parâmetros 284B no total / ~13B ativos (MoE)
Janela de contexto 1 milhão
Saída máxima 384 mil
Licença MIT (aberta)
Pesos abertos Sim
Lançado 2026-04
Preço da entrada $0.14 /1M
Preço da saída $0.28 /1M
Provedores de API DeepSeek, OpenRouter

Execute-o localmente

VRAM (4 bits) ~140 GB
GPU mínima 2× H100 80 GB (4 bits)

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What is DeepSeek V4-Flash?

DeepSeek V4-Flash is the lighter member of the DeepSeek V4 family — 284B total parameters
with roughly 13B active per token, a 1M-token context window, and open MIT weights. At $0.14
in / $0.28 out per million tokens it is priced for high-volume use, and it is one of the
strongest capability-per-dollar options anywhere in the market.

The number worth internalising is the blended rate of about $0.17 per million tokens
against a frontier model’s $10. That is a ~60× spread for a model that still scores in the
respectable middle of the intelligence rankings, which makes V4-Flash the obvious candidate
for any workload where volume matters more than peak reasoning: bulk classification,
document processing, first-pass summarisation, synthetic data generation, and the retrieval
layer of a RAG pipeline. The 1M context at that price is close to unmatched. Self-hosting is
possible but not casual — about 140 GB of VRAM at 4-bit, so two H100 80GBs — which for most
teams means the API is the practical route and the open weights are insurance rather than a
deployment plan.

DeepSeek V4-Flash pricing: API cost per 1M tokens

Entrada (por 1 milhão de tokens)$0.140
Saída (por 1 milhão de tokens)$0.280
Razão saída/entrada
Misturada (4:1 entrada:saída)$0.168 por 1 milhão de tokens

What DeepSeek V4-Flash costs per month

Gasto mensal real com uma proporção de entrada para saída de 4:1 — a razão efetivamente gerada por cargas de trabalho típicas de chat ou RAG.

Carga de trabalhoTokens/mêsCusto por mês
Projeto paralelo 1 milhão de tokens de entrada / 0,25 milhão de tokens de saída $0.21
Equipe pequena 20 milhões de tokens de entrada / 5 milhões de tokens de saída $4.20
Produção 200 milhões de tokens de entrada / 50 milhões de tokens de saída $42

Calcule seus próprios números na Calculadora de custos de API de IA.

Cheaper alternatives to DeepSeek V4-Flash

ModeloCusto médio ponderado por US$ 1 milhãoVocê economiza
Mistral 7B aberta $0.0220 87% cheaper
Llama 3.1 8B aberta $0.0220 87% cheaper
Mistral NeMo 12B aberta $0.0240 86% cheaper

Hospedar localmente ou pagar pela API?

DeepSeek V4-Flash is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. It needs ~140 GB of VRAM at 4-bit (2× H100 80GB (4-bit)). Self-hosting only beats the API once your volume is high enough to keep that hardware busy — the calculadora de autohospedagem versus API calcula o ponto de equilíbrio para seu volume de tokens.

Perguntas frequentes

How much does DeepSeek V4-Flash cost per 1M tokens?

DeepSeek V4-Flash costs $0.140 per 1M input tokens and $0.280 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $0.168 per 1M tokens.

How much does DeepSeek V4-Flash cost per month?

A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $4.20 on DeepSeek V4-Flash. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $0.21.

What is a cheaper alternative to DeepSeek V4-Flash?

Mistral 7B is the strongest cheaper option in our database at $0.0220 per 1M blended — about 87% less than DeepSeek V4-Flash. It is also open-weight, so self-hosting is an option.

Can I run DeepSeek V4-Flash locally?

Yes. DeepSeek V4-Flash is open-weight and needs about ~140 GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantisation (2× H100 80GB (4-bit)).

Why does DeepSeek V4-Flash charge more for output than input?

Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. DeepSeek V4-Flash charges 2× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.

See every DeepSeek model priced side by side: Preços da API DeepSeek.

Os preços correspondem às tarifas listadas oficialmente para a API principal do modelo e são revisados conforme os provedores os atualizam. Descontos por volume, processamento em lote ou entradas em cache não estão incluídos. Compare todos os modelos lado a lado na Banco de dados de modelos de IA ou o Ranking de LLMs.

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