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DeepSeek-V4-Flash

deepseek-ai MIT out 6 months ago

291B parameters (6 of 256 experts per token), text in, text out, 1M tokens of context. 16 providers serve it from $0.030 per million input tokens.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #28 in LLMs · score 114 method v1 Sources 5 Downloads 30d 880.3k · #122 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: Cheapest input price rose 44.7%: $0.033 → $0.047 per 1M (OpenRouter).2026-10-24 · 6 new quantized builds on the Hub (134 in all).2026-10-24

What does it cost?$0.030/1M incheapest of 15Relacefp42026-10-24
Can I use it?MITPermissivelicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?880.3kdownloads, 30 days#122 of 619 we track · top 20%+12 likes, downloads +8% this week2,337 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

The ringer: four playful tests

A pelican steals a bicycle from a supermarket

as received● 4/4 on palette
SVG reply: a pelican steals a bicycle from a supermarket
Draw a pelican stealing a bicycle from a supermarket. Reply with one complete SVG document only, no prose and no code fences. Use viewBox="0 0 200 150" and a transparent background. Use only these colours for every fill and stroke: #06e0c0 #ffc298 #cd85f9 #f1f2f2.

Finish the dad joke

as received● 1 line · 9 words

Why did the open-weights model cross the road?

To get to the other side of the dataset.

Finish this dad joke. Reply with the punchline only, on one line, without quotes: Why did the open-weights model cross the road?

A parasailer, in ASCII

as received● 12×32 fits 12×32
         ___
        /   \
       /     \
      /       \
        \   /
          X
          O
          |
        /   \
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Draw ASCII art of a parasailer over the sea. At most 12 lines and 32 columns. Reply with the art only: no code fences, no explanation.

Animate a bouncing ball

as received● 8 frames · 16×16
Make a 16x16 pixel sprite animation of a ball bouncing, 8 frames. Reply with JSON only, no code fences: {"palette": {"a": "#rrggbb", ...}, "fps": <number>, "frames": [[16 strings of 16 characters], ...]}. At most 4 palette colours with single-letter keys; "." means transparent; exactly 8 frames.
1 of 4 · swipe for more

The ringer: the same four playful tests for every model, replies shown as received and checked by code. A joke, not a benchmark; never ranked.4 of 4 pass · parasail-deepseek-v4-flash on parasail · run 2026-10-09 · temperature 0 · cost $0.009 · 2026-10 thing: supermarket · all models →

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 46 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

The lab's own post

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

The DeepSeek API supports OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs via compatible configurations.

api-docs.deepseek.com 2026-07-31 745 HN pts · 347 comments 387 words
Most discussed · 796 HN pts
arcprize.org 2026-08-07 796 HN pts · 476 comments 5.3k words

25 best of 46 tracked

The 4 picks above, plus these 21. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleDeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-expapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-08-21 · 498 HN pts · official
  2. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813openrouter.ai · 2026-08-12
  3. CodeDeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300Xgithub.com · 2026-08-04 · 382 HN pts
  4. ArticleDeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Publishapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-08-12 · official
  5. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly releasedapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-08-12 · official
  6. ArticleDeepSeek v4api-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-04-24 · 2,091 HN pts · official
  7. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precisionruntimewire.com · 2026-06-08
  8. ArticleDeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontiersimonwillison.net · 2026-05-01 · 677 HN pts
  9. ArticleShow HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent spaceblog.n.ichol.ai · 2026-08-09 · 30 HN pts
  10. CodeDeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Progithub.com · 2026-05-03
  11. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 Mayapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-05-06 · official
  12. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harnessantigma.ai · 2026-08-09 · 37 HN pts
  13. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Changekucoin.com · 2026-06-29
  14. ArticleHaving fun with oh my pi, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna and Antigravity CLIflashblaze.xyz · 2026-08-02
  15. ArticleDeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting againseangoedecke.com · 2026-05-16
  16. ArticleBringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300Xfergusfinn.com · 2026-06-02
  17. DiscussionDeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Is Now Live on the DeepSeek API Platformtwitter.com · 2026-08-21
  18. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Flash at 278 tok/s, full precision, no quantizationruninfra.ai · 2026-08-15
  19. ArticleDeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Mileslmsys.org · 2026-04-25
  20. ArticleDeepSeek V4: The Open-Source Model Frontier Labs Fearedhelloai.com · 2026-05-15
  21. CodeRunning DeepSeek V4 Flash on an RTX 5080 with 16GB VRAM Under Linux/WSL2 via DS4github.com · 2026-08-12

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

Prices for the same weights vary 16×

15 providers with a live price, from $0.030 to $0.50 per million input tokens; the median is $0.13. One dot per provider, cheapest in teal.

$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Relace: $0.030 in / $0.45 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashStreamLake: $0.031 in / $0.063 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashBaidu: $0.032 in / $0.064 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashDeepInfra: $0.090 in / $0.18 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingGMICloud: $0.091 in / $0.18 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashVenice: $0.097 in / $0.19 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashDigitalOcean: $0.098 in / $0.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashSiliconFlow: $0.13 in / $0.28 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashParasail: $0.14 in / $0.28 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://docs.parasail.io/parasail-docs/billing/pricingAtlasCloud: $0.14 in / $0.28 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashAlibaba: $0.15 in / $0.30 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashMancer 2: $0.19 in / $0.50 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashAzure: $0.21 in / $0.56 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashCloudflare: $0.44 in / $1.32 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashWafer: $0.50 in / $0.17 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashcheapest $0.030median $0.13
$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Relace: $0.030 in / $0.45 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashStreamLake: $0.031 in / $0.063 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashBaidu: $0.032 in / $0.064 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashDeepInfra: $0.090 in / $0.18 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingGMICloud: $0.091 in / $0.18 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashVenice: $0.097 in / $0.19 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashDigitalOcean: $0.098 in / $0.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashSiliconFlow: $0.13 in / $0.28 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashParasail: $0.14 in / $0.28 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://docs.parasail.io/parasail-docs/billing/pricingAtlasCloud: $0.14 in / $0.28 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashAlibaba: $0.15 in / $0.30 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashMancer 2: $0.19 in / $0.50 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashAzure: $0.21 in / $0.56 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashCloudflare: $0.44 in / $1.32 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashWafer: $0.50 in / $0.17 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashcheapest $0.030 · median $0.13 (white tick)
#Cheapest 5In /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Relace $0.030 $0.45 1M fp4 Oct 24
2 StreamLake $0.031 $0.063 1000K fp8 Oct 24
3 Baidu $0.032 $0.064 1M fp8 Oct 24
4 DeepInfra $0.090 $0.18 1M fp8 Oct 25
5 GMICloud $0.091 $0.18 1024K fp8 Oct 24

All 16 providers →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Widely served (16 API providers); heavily run locally (134 quantized builds).

  • As a service16Alibaba, AtlasCloud, Azure, Baidu +12
  • On own hardware134quantized builds
  • Built on3228 fine-tunes · 4 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: bluemoonsoldout/llm-cal ♥ 2 · kingabzpro/ScholarScope ♥ 2 · adesh01/civicsetu ♥ 1 · Otter21/OPENENV_RL_01 ♥ 1

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Needs an 8×80 GB node even at INT4

About 175 GB at INT4, 349 GB at FP8, 698 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 175 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT4175 GBFP8: about 349 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8349 GBBF16: about 698 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16698 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 175 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT4175 GBFP8: about 349 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8349 GBBF16: about 698 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16698 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

Day-one receipts

Claim-matched tests, graded by code. Receipts, not a score.

Speed run● pass
{
  "providers": [
    {
      "provider": "parasail",
      "endpoint_model": "parasail-deepseek-v4-flash",
      "source_url": "https://api.parasail.io/v1/chat/completions",
      "ttft_ms_median": 1535,
      "ttft_any_ms_median": 1065,
      "tokens_per_s_median": 79.4,
      "runs": [
        {
          "ttft_s": 1.535,
          "ttft_any_s": 1.065,
          "tokens_per_s": 79.4,
          "latency_s": 2.86,
          "tokens_out": 227,
          "reasoning_chars": 202,
          "finish": "stop"
        },
        {
          "ttft_s": 1.696,
          "ttft_any_s": 1.172,
          "tokens_per_s": 77.8,
          "latency_s": 3.15,
          "tokens_out": 245,
          "reasoning_chars": 212,
          "finish": "stop"
        },
        {
          "ttft_s": 1.167,
          "ttft_any_s": 0.675,
          "tokens_per_s": 104.6,
          "latency_s": 2.22,
          "tokens_out": 232,
          "reasoning_chars": 219,
          "finish": "stop"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "note": "Single client, wall clock; tok/s counts every output token including hidden reasoning."
}
Three-tool errand● pass
{
  "calls": [
    {
      "name": "get_weather",
      "args": {
        "city": "Lisbon",
        "date": "2026-10-14"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "check_calendar",
      "args": {
        "date": "2026-10-14"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "book_table",
      "args": {
        "restaurant": "Cervejaria Ramiro",
        "date": "2026-10-14",
        "time": "19:30",
        "party_size": 2
      }
    }
  ],
  "checks": {
    "get_weather": true,
    "check_calendar": true,
    "book_table": true
  },
  "final": "Done! Here's the summary:\n\n- **Weather in Lisbon on 2026-10-14**: Clear skies, no rain ☀️\n- **Free evening slot**: 19:30–21:30\n- **Booking**: Cervejaria Ramiro for 2 at **19:30**\n- **Confirmation code**: **TBL-4471** ✅",
  "fixture": "receipts.errand.v1"
}
calls in order · args 3/3 · confirmed · 2026-10-094.5 s
Messy addresses to JSON● pass
{
  "fields_matched": 80,
  "fields_total": 80,
  "cost_per_1000_usd": 0.0387,
  "parsed": true,
  "per_item": [
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    },
    {
      "street": true,
      "city": true,
      "postcode": true,
      "country": true
    }
  ],
  "sample": [
    {
      "street": "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway",
      "unit": null,
      "city": "Mountain View",
      "region": "CA",
      "postcode": "94043",
      "country": "US"
    },
    {
      "street": "10 Downing Street",
      "unit": null,
      "city": "London",
      "region": null,
      "postcode": "SW1A 2AA",
      "country": "GB"
    },
    {
      "street": "Rua Augusta 274",
      "unit": null,
      "city": "Lisboa",
      "region": null,
      "postcode": "1100-053",
      "country": "PT"
    }
  ],
  "fixture": "receipts.addresses.v1"
}
80/80 fields · $0.0387 per 1,000 · 2026-10-0923.8 s
Needle heatmap● pass
{
  "lengths_k": [
    8,
    32,
    64
  ],
  "depths": [
    0.1,
    0.5,
    0.9
  ],
  "cells": [
    [
      1,
      1,
      1
    ],
    [
      1,
      1,
      1
    ],
    [
      1,
      1,
      1
    ]
  ],
  "detail": [
    {
      "k": 8,
      "depth": 0.1,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "amber-falcon-7731",
      "latency_s": 1.82,
      "finish": "stop"
    },
    {
      "k": 8,
      "depth": 0.5,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "cobalt-marten-7828",
      "latency_s": 1.31,
      "finish": "stop"
    },
    {
      "k": 8,
      "depth": 0.9,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "saffron-newt-7925",
      "latency_s": 1.27,
      "finish": "stop"
    },
    {
      "k": 32,
      "depth": 0.1,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "jade-lynx-8022",
      "latency_s": 3.87,
      "finish": "stop"
    },
    {
      "k": 32,
      "depth": 0.5,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "umber-kestrel-8119",
      "latency_s": 3.12,
      "finish": "stop"
    },
    {
      "k": 32,
      "depth": 0.9,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "coral-heron-8216",
      "latency_s": 2.77,
      "finish": "stop"
    },
    {
      "k": 64,
      "depth": 0.1,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "slate-badger-8313",
      "latency_s": 7.26,
      "finish": "stop"
    },
    {
      "k": 64,
      "depth": 0.5,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "ochre-otter-8410",
      "latency_s": 4.73,
      "finish": "stop"
    },
    {
      "k": 64,
      "depth": 0.9,
      "recalled": true,
      "reply": "teal-ibis-8507",
      "latency_s": 4.68,
      "finish": "stop"
    }
  ]
}

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

10 dated articles and 20 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2026-04-22), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

166 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

166 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

134 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)28 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)134 quantized28 fine-tunes4 adapters
134 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)28 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)134 quantized28 fine-tunes4 adapters

All variants →

Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

24 rows

Benchmarks 24 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (24)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported AGIEval (EM)82.6DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported BBH (EM)86.9DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported BigCodeBench · Write code with agents56.8 pass@1DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported C-Eval · Work across languages92.1DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported CLUEWSC (EM)82.2DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported CMMLU · Work across languages90.4DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Commonsense QA sets · Chat and follow instructions82.8DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported DROP (F1)88.6DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported FACTS Parametric (EM)33.9DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported GSM8K · Reason through hard problems90.8DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported HellaSwag · Chat and follow instructions85.7DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported HumanEval · Write code with agents69.5 pass@1DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported LongBench v2 · Read long documents44.7DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MATH-500 · Reason through hard problems57.4DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MATH-500 · Reason through hard problems93.6DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MGSM · Work across languages85.7DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU · Reason through hard problems88.7DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU · Reason through hard problems89.4DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU-Pro · Reason through hard problems68.3DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMMLU · Work across languages88.8DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MultiLoKo (EM)42.2DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported SimpleQA · Reason through hard problems30.1DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported SuperGPQA · Reason through hard problems46.5DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Winogrande · Chat and follow instructions79.5DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The model features 284B total parameters and supports a context length of one million tokens.[1]

  1. “DeepSeek-V4-Flash with 284B parameters (13B activated) — …”

Generated 2026-10-07 14:59 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

6 use cases

Facts

22 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesDeepseekV4ForCausalLM
Model typedeepseek_v4
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 1,415,259,264 · F32: 36,168,018 · F8_E4M3: 6,023,020,544 · I8: 283,467,841,536 · I64: 2,327,040
Size bandXXL
MoEyes
Experts256
Experts per token6
Context length1,048,576 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2606.19348
LicenseMIT (mit)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · DeepseekV4ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · DeepseekV4ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for DeepSeek-V4-Flash: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)698 GB · Cluster (≥640 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)349 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)175 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original release (shipped quantized by the lab) Family: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4 166 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 134finetune: 28adapter: 4

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf quantized gguf — — mit antirez 494 12.7M
nvidia/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 291B XXL mit nvidia 119 2M
sgl-project/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-FP8 quantized -FP8 291B XXL mit sgl-project 15 1.8M
huihui-ai/Huihui-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-abliterated-ds4-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit huihui-ai 146 1.6M
nsparks/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-FP4-FP8-GGUF quantized -FP8 — — other nsparks 16 365.3k
unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit unsloth 259 240.4k
bartowski/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit bartowski 36 247k
cyberneurova/CyberNeurova-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-abliterated-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit cyberneurova 62 162.5k
teamblobfish/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit teamblobfish 29 118.6k
audreyt/CyberNeurova-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-abliterated-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit audreyt 13 114.4k
RedHatAI/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-NVFP4-FP8 quantized NVFP4 163B XXL mit RedHatAI 25 69.8k
unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash quantized — 158B XXL mit unsloth 78 63.5k
mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-8bit quantized -8bit 284B XXL mit mlx-community 14 46.7k
fraserprice/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark quantized — 165B XXL mit fraserprice 9 40.7k
crusoeai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-BF16 finetune -BF16 284B XXL mit crusoeai 0 40.9k
canada-quant/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-W4A16-FP8-MTP quantized -W4A16 50.7B XL mit canada-quant 20 35.4k
Intel/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-W4A16-AutoRound quantized -W4A16 41.5B XL mit Intel 27 32.5k
bleysg/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-drafter-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit bleysg 6 31k
mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash quantized — 50.6B XL mit mlx-community 3 29.9k
canada-quant/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-W4A16-FP8 quantized -W4A16 44.1B XL mit canada-quant 16 25.1k
0xSero/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-180B quantized — 102B XXL mit 0xSero 32 22.7k
Thump604/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MLX-Q2-mixed-gs128-affine quantized MLX 284B XXL mit Thump604 7 23k
nvidia/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-nvfp4-DSpark quantized nvfp4 304B XXL mit nvidia 33 21.4k
inferencerlabs/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MLX-Q2i quantized MLX — — — inferencerlabs 11 16.6k
Preyazz/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Q8_0-GGUF quantized Q8_0 — — mit Preyazz 2 17k
mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-4bit quantized -4bit 284B XXL mit mlx-community 5 16.5k
MemTensor/MemT-1.0-Flash finetune — 288B XXL mit MemTensor 77 12.5k
lovedheart/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — lovedheart 6 15.3k
bullerwins/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — bullerwins 6 13.9k
jedisct1/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-imatrix-aligned quantized imatrix — — mit jedisct1 5 13.5k
Thump604/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MLX-Q3-mixed-gs128-affine quantized MLX 284B XXL mit Thump604 5 12.9k
ssweens/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF-YMMV quantized GGUF — — mit ssweens 9 12.3k
Chunjiang-Intelligence/DeepSeek-v4-Fable adapter — 149B XXL openrail Chunjiang-Intelligence 165 3.8k
tarruda/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit tarruda 21 9.1k
mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MTP-bf16 quantized -bf16 6.61B M mit mlx-community 1 9.7k
ddh0/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — ddh0 7 9.2k
mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-6bit quantized — 284B XXL mit mlx-community 2 9.3k
mlx-community/deepseek-ai-DeepSeek-V4-Flash-3bit quantized — 284B XXL mit mlx-community 1 8.5k
inferencerlabs/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MTP-MLX quantized MLX 6.61B M — inferencerlabs 3 7.9k
ggml-org/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit ggml-org 12 7.4k

Repository changelog

20 commits
changed in the last 7 daysPrice moves: 2026-10-24Other: 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 20 commits

DateCommitSHA
2026-06-22 Update technical report 60d8d70
2026-06-08 Update inference/kernel.py 553034d
2026-05-06 Update technical report 6976c7f
2026-04-27 Update config.json fd53f94
2026-04-27 Update inference/model.py 2b2bebc
2026-04-24 Update technical report 6c858e7
2026-04-24 Update README 6e76323
2026-04-24 Update README fea5c29
2026-04-24 Update benchmark figure 0cad8ee
2026-04-24 Update technical report efc8551
2026-04-24 Update technical report a8bd4f4
2026-04-24 Update technical report link 26456c7
2026-04-24 Update inference/generate.py ad664d5
2026-04-24 Upload config.json 216d766
2026-04-24 Release DeepSeek-V4 a7aaed8
2026-04-23 use sys.path for encoding d07dda5
2026-04-23 Upload folder using huggingface_hub 24d73e8
2026-04-23 add inference code 2b88d47
2026-04-23 Add files using upload-large-folder tool 7d0cce9
2026-04-22 initial commit 1afa6f9

All providers

16 providers · 16 endpoints

Where to run 16 providers · 16 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for DeepSeek-V4-Flash, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.03/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Relace
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1M fp4 $0.03 $0.45 — — yes live 2026-10-24
StreamLake
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1000K fp8 $0.03 $0.06 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Baidu
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1M fp8 $0.03 $0.06 — — yes live 2026-10-24
DeepInfra
hf, deepinfra, openrouter
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash 1M fp8 $0.09 $0.18 33.4 464 ms yes live 2026-10-25
GMICloud
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1024K fp8 $0.09 $0.18 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Venice
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 977K unknown $0.10 $0.19 — — yes live 2026-10-24
DigitalOcean
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1M unknown $0.10 $0.20 — — yes live 2026-10-24
SiliconFlow
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1M fp8 $0.13 $0.28 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Parasail
parasail, openrouter
parasail-deepseek-v4-flash 1M fp8 $0.14 $0.28 — — yes serverless 2026-10-24
AtlasCloud
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1M fp4 $0.14 $0.28 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Alibaba
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 977K fp8 $0.15 $0.30 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Mancer 2
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1M fp8 $0.19 $0.50 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Azure
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1M unknown $0.21 $0.56 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Cloudflare
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 375K unknown $0.44 $1.32 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Wafer
openrouter
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash 1M mxfp4 $0.50 $0.17 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Featherless
hf
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

46 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official3

api-docs.deepseek.com2026-08-21officialauthorityHN front pageHN 498 pts · 154 comments1,275 words
The deepseek-flash model accepts images alongside text for tasks like describing pictures or analyzing charts. Inline images and external URLs count toward the 48 MiB request body limit and are capped at 32 MiB per image, while Files API references support up to 64 MiB. Every image is automatically resized to an upper bound of 1024 tokens regardless of original dimensions.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model detects image format from file content rather than the filename or declared MIME type.
  • Requests containing 15 or more images reduce the maximum image dimension to 4096 pixels per side.
  • Images in system or assistant messages are rejected with a 400 error instead of being processed.
api-docs.deepseek.com2026-07-31officialauthorityHN front pageHN 745 pts · 347 comments387 words
The DeepSeek API supports OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs via compatible configurations. The deepseek-flash model is now served by DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, while legacy names deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp remain accepted but are retired and billed at the Flash price. Users apply for an API key to access these models.written, reviewed, cited
api-docs.deepseek.com2026-04-24officialauthorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 2,091 pts · 1,607 comments326 words

Analysis7

cactuscompute.com2026-09-18HN front pageHN 236 pts · 93 comments1,466 words
Cactus releases Needle 3, a foundation model for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. The model uses intelligence laddering to produce 9 to 29 MB CQ2-bit binaries with 400-4k tokens/s decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5. Needle 3 specializes in local tool calling and structured extraction, matching DeepSeek V4 Flash when tuned on downstream tasks for one epoch.written, reviewed, cited
  • A required argument with no default and no evidence in the request is withheld rather than guessed.
artificialanalysis.ai2026-07-31authorityHN front pageHN 594 pts · 312 comments1,118 words
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Max) is a 284B parameter open-weight model released on July 31, 2026, under the MIT license. It scores 34 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index while costing $0.14 per 1M input tokens and utilizing only 13B active parameters during inference. The model supports a 1M token context window and outputs text at 149.8 tokens per second.written, reviewed, cited
  • This model is deprecated and benchmarking continues only for the default 10k input token workload.
  • The model is notably fast but generates output that is very verbose compared to the median.
  • For a blended rate using a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio, the cost is $0.07 per 1M tokens.
arcprize.org2026-08-07HN front pageHN 796 pts · 476 comments5,340 words
github.com2026-08-04authorityHN front pageHN 382 pts · 109 comments2,531 words
simonwillison.net2026-05-01authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 677 pts · 398 comments
blog.n.ichol.ai2026-08-09about the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 30 pts · 24 comments
antigma.ai2026-08-09HN 37 pts · 6 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (46) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Release: Benchmark Deep Divekie.ai—2026-10-07exa
Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flashcactuscompute.com2026-09-182026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash across 14 providers: cost, speed and cachinginference.academy2026-09-072026-10-07hn
A plane war game build by DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp with only $0.5plane-war-9t2.pages.dev2026-08-242026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-expapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-08-212026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Is Now Live on the DeepSeek API Platformtwitter.com2026-08-212026-10-07hn
Self-Verification with DeepSeek V4 Flash Beats Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Benchgithub.com2026-08-182026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash at 278 tok/s, full precision, no quantizationruninfra.ai2026-08-152026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 latency numbers from nine providersoskrim.github.io2026-08-142026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly releasedapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-08-122026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813openrouter.ai2026-08-122026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Publishapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-08-122026-10-07hn
Running DeepSeek V4 Flash on an RTX 5080 with 16GB VRAM Under Linux/WSL2 via DS4github.com2026-08-122026-10-07hn
Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent spaceblog.n.ichol.ai2026-08-092026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harnessantigma.ai2026-08-092026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731arcprize.org2026-08-072026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 deep dive: 1M-context MoE at $0.09/$0.18 on OpenRouter — AI Hippoai-hippo.com2026-08-062026-10-07exa
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300Xgithub.com2026-08-042026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash review: one model, two personalities | eesel AIeesel.ai2026-08-042026-10-07exa
DeepSeek v4 flash and cheap intelligence0xsid.com2026-08-032026-10-07hn
Having fun with oh my pi, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna and Antigravity CLIflashblaze.xyz2026-08-022026-10-07hn
Ask HN: Anyone got DeepSeek-v4-flash-0731 running using antirez/ds4?news.ycombinator.com2026-08-012026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysisartificialanalysis.ai2026-07-312026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Updateapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-07-312026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash Deep-Dive Review (July 2026): Same Weights, One Retraining Pass, Agent Scores Jump 7x - EggStriker.AI Blogeggstriker.com2026-07-312026-10-07exa
AMD Lucebox Beats Nvidia DGX Spark by 3.63x on DeepSeek V4 Flashlucebox.com2026-07-302026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4-Flash Review (2026): 9/9 at 1/20 the Cost of Opus, Tested | DataLLM Labdatallmlab.com2026-07-102026-10-07exa
DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Changekucoin.com2026-06-292026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro at 5% the cost of Claude – what it takes to close the gaphowardchen.substack.com2026-06-162026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precisionruntimewire.com2026-06-082026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash (official FP8) running across 2x DGX Sparkforums.developer.nvidia.com2026-06-022026-10-07hn
Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300Xfergusfinn.com2026-06-022026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash (284B params) running on a Raspberry Pi 5 8GBtwitter.com2026-06-012026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting againseangoedecke.com2026-05-162026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4: The Open-Source Model Frontier Labs Fearedhelloai.com2026-05-152026-10-07hn
DS4, a specialized inference engine for DeepSeek v4 Flashtwitter.com2026-05-072026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 Mayapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-05-062026-10-07hn
DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Progithub.com2026-05-032026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontiersimonwillison.net2026-05-012026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash: Technical Deep Dive into the 284B-A13B Hybrid-Attention MoE - Local AI Zonelocal-ai-zone.github.io2026-04-262026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Mileslmsys.org2026-04-252026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Deep Dive: DSA Sparse Attention, 1M Context, vs GPT-5 / Claude / Gemini | NGJOO AIngjoo.com2026-04-252026-10-07exa
DeepSeek V4 Architecture Deep Dive: MoE + CSA/HCA Hybrid Attention and Million-Token Context (Released) | DeepSeek AI Blogfreedeepseekapi.com2026-04-252026-10-07exa
DeepSeek v4api-docs.deepseek.com official2026-04-242026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash: 284B MoE for High-Throughput Pipelines at $0.14/M — Redeepredeep.blog2026-04-242026-10-07exa
DeepSeek V4 Flash Review: Open-Weight, Low Cost | HokAIhokai.io2026-04-242026-10-07exa

Papers

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:31 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 14:59 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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