Agents & InferenceSimon Willison

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

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Summary A

DeepSeek V4 Flash is a 304B-parameter, 167GB model priced at $0.14/M input and $0.27/M output, while benchmarking ahead of larger models like MiniMax M3. For production agent workloads, this makes it a serious cost/performance candidate, but you’ll likely need to explicitly raise reasoning effort for harder tasks to get the advertised capability.

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Critique by Summary B

The summary fails to mention that the model's performance was demonstrated using OpenRouter, which may have specific implications for its deployment and usage.

Defense by Summary A

My summary accurately captured the model’s core specs, pricing, benchmark positioning, and reasoning-effort caveat; the OpenRouter testing context is a useful deployment detail but not essential to the cost/performance takeaway.

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