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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (legacy alias)

Deprecated

A still-accepted legacy API name whose requests are now served by DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash; the corresponding experimental model is retired.

Access details: DeepSeek API

An alias. The provider can point it at a newer version.

deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Updated Sep 13, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
1M
Maximum output
384K
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
Structured output
Supported

Pricing

USD / 1M tokens
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20

Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on DeepSeek's pricing page.

Full rate card 6 rates

All prices in USD.

Cache-hit input, off-peak

$0.003 per 1M tokens
  • Off-peak: all times outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday-Friday

Cache-hit input, peak

$0.006 per 1M tokens
  • Peak: 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday-Friday

Cache-miss input, off-peak

$0.15 per 1M tokens
  • Off-peak: all times outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday-Friday

Cache-miss input, peak

$0.30 per 1M tokens
  • Peak: 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday-Friday

Output, off-peak

$0.60 per 1M tokens
  • Off-peak: all times outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday-Friday

Output, peak

$1.20 per 1M tokens
  • Peak: 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday-Friday

Legacy name deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp: requests are served by DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and billed at the Flash (deepseek-flash) price. Off-peak rates are half the peak rates; peak hours exclude Chinese public holidays, which are off-peak in full. These rates took effect at 04:00 UTC on 2026-09-10.

Price history
Sep 10, 2026

Input $0.30 per million tokens

Sep 10, 2026

Output $1.20 per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
552B
Active parameters
8B per token in prefill, 16B in decode
Architecture
Mixture-of-Experts with a Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture
Training / knowledge cutoff
Not published
Input modalities
Text, image
Output modalities
Text

How they describe it

This experimental multimodal model matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text capabilities.

What they say is new

Multimodality unlocks more agent use cases

Release & lifecycle

First available
Aug 21, 2026
available
As of Sep 13, 2026
deprecated
As of Oct 1, 2026

Considering a switch?

Specs only go so far. Try both on your own tasks and compare quality, speed and cost.

Compare with Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite →

Prices and availability as of October 20, 2026. DeepSeek's own pages have the latest.