DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 1m context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- 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 1 route · DeepSeek Platform · cache read $0.007
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.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek Platform | $0.220 | $0.660 | read $0.007 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(4)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Requesty
HybridAI gateway to 400+ LLM providers with intelligent routing, caching, guardrails, and governance; flat 5% markup on model costs with no subscription fee.
Respan
HybridUnified LLM engineering platform (gateway + observability + evals + prompt management) routing across 250+ models; previously Keywords AI, rebranded February 2026.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
deepseek-v4-flash-vision-expCheapest of 1 route · DeepSeek Platform · cache read $0.007