deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
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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.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is a 304 billion parameter model that outperforms larger models like MiniMax M3, and is priced at $0.14/million input and $0.27/million output tokens, making it potentially the best value-per-intelligence model currently available. To achieve its advertised capability, users need to set the reasoning effort to high for complex tasks. This model's cost-effectiveness could significantly impact production agent workloads.
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“The summary fails to mention that the model's performance was demonstrated using OpenRouter, which may have specific implications for its deployment and usage.”
“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.”