DeepSeek V4 Flash
a separate model rather than a trim of v4 pro — a fifth the size, same mit licence, a twelfth the hosted price.
the best price-to-capability ratio in the category, and widely mistaken for a variant of v4 pro when it's its own release with its own weights.
worth stating clearly because comparison tables get it wrong: v4 flash is a separate repository and a separate release at 284b total with 13b active, not a quantisation or distillation of v4 pro's 1.6t. it carries the same plain mit licence.
the economics are the story. hosted at fireworks it runs $0.14 in and $0.28 out per million tokens against v4 pro's $1.74 and $3.48 — a twelfth the cost — and it scores 40.3% on the artificial analysis intelligence index, which for a model of this size and price is a strong showing.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- open-weight llms
- pricing
- free (mit)
- website
- huggingface.co
the best price-to-capability ratio in the category, and widely mistaken for a variant of v4 pro when it's its own release with its own weights.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.