Sources & verification notes

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

• Exact identifier & access

  Identity and lifecycle apply to this exact identifier and serving surface.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• First availability

  Effective Aug 31, 2026. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  DeepSeek's release post dates the API availability of this model 2026-08-21. No developer post dates the weights; 2026-08-31 is the Hugging Face repository creation date, read from the Hugging Face API.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Availability status

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  The repository is listed in the deepseek-ai Hugging Face organization and downloadable as of 2026-10-01.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Capabilities & limits

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  The card states no context length; the figure is max_position_embeddings in the repository's config.json. The card states no maximum output length. The card's vLLM command enables the deepseek_v4 tool-call parser, and its encoding README covers tool calls. The card documents no JSON or structured-output mode. Image input per the card.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Input price

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  Downloadable weights; no managed API price applies.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Output price

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  Downloadable weights; no managed API price applies.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Reference price

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  OpenRouter's listed price for deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp (https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp), which OpenRouter maps to this Hugging Face repo. USD per million tokens; a host's price, not the developer's.

  • OpenRouter models API ↗OpenRouter · host-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Model card

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Official announcement

  Effective Aug 31, 2026. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Release: Multimodal API Now Live ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Provider description

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• Provider comparison

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  • DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Release: Multimodal API Now Live ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026

• License

  Effective date not established; this is an observation. Checked Oct 1, 2026.

  The card says this repository is MIT licensed.

  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model card ↗DeepSeek · provider-authored · checked Oct 1, 2026