DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
- Family
- DeepSeek V4
- Released
- 2026-08-21
- Context
- 1m
- Max output
- 384,000
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- vision
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter · cache read $0.0069
About
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is DeepSeek's experimental multimodal extension of V4 Flash, released August 21, 2026. It matches V4 Flash on text while adding image understanding for agent workflows through the DeepSeek API model ID deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp. Images are billed as up to 384 input tokens each at V4 Flash text rates. Experimental public API; weights not released.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.2156 | $0.6468 | read $0.0069 | Serverless |
| DeepSeek Platform | $0.220 | $0.660 | read $0.007 | Serverless |
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OpenRouter
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Requesty
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Respan
HybridUnified LLM engineering platform (gateway + observability + evals + prompt management) routing across 250+ models; previously Keywords AI, rebranded February 2026.
Capabilities
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API versions
deepseek-v4-flash-vision-expCheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter · cache read $0.0069