DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek V4 Flash is a low-cost coding-agent model upgraded to DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on July 31, 2026, with a public-beta API, native Responses API and Codex support, plus an official MIT-licensed checkpoint for self-hosting.
🚀Function Overview
A public-beta API and open-weight model for cost-sensitive coding agents, long-context text workflows, structured output, function calling, Responses-compatible clients such as Codex, and suitably provisioned self-hosted inference.
Key Features
- Stable request model ID deepseek-v4-flash with backend version DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
- 1M token context length and 384K maximum output
- Native stateless Responses API support with function tools and server-side web search
- Official Codex integration path for CLI, desktop, and VS Code clients
- Thinking enabled by default with low, high, and max effort behavior
- OpenAI Chat Completions and Anthropic-compatible API access
- Official DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 checkpoint released under the MIT License with vLLM and SGLang serving guidance
- Regular pricing of $0.0028 cache-hit input, $0.14 cache-miss input, and $0.28 output per 1M tokens
- Account concurrency limit of 2,500 requests
Use Cases
- •Cost-sensitive coding-agent sessions through the DeepSeek API
- •Codex workflows using a Responses-compatible custom provider
- •Long-context text analysis with tool calls or server-side web search
- •Structured JSON or JSON Schema output generation
- •Self-hosted inference on suitable multi-GPU hardware when privacy or sustained volume justifies the operational cost
- •Controlled comparison with the current DeepSeek V4 Pro preview endpoint
⚙️Input Parameters
input
string | arrayText or Responses API input items. Supported item types include messages, reasoning, function calls, function outputs, and web-search calls; image and file inputs are not supported.
instructions
stringOptional system-level instruction inserted at the beginning of the Responses API context.
reasoning
objectOptional thinking configuration. DeepSeek maps effort values to non-thinking, low, high, or max behavior.
tools
arrayOptional function definitions and the supported server-side web-search tool for Responses API workflows.
text.format
objectOptional text, JSON object, or JSON Schema output configuration.
💡Usage Examples
Example 1
Input Parameters
{
"model": "deepseek-v4-flash",
"input": "Review this change plan and return the three highest-risk assumptions.",
"reasoning": {
"effort": "high"
},
"max_output_tokens": 1200
}Output Results
Quick Actions
Technical Specifications
- Hardware Type
- DeepSeek API or self-hosted multi-GPU
- Commercial Use
- Supported
- Pricing
- $0.0028/1M cache-hit input, $0.14/1M cache-miss input, $0.28/1M output at regular pricing
- Platform
- Replicate
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