DeepSeek V4 Flash pricing

DeepSeek · deepseek-deepseek-v4-flash · 1M context · 2nd cheapest of 64 current models

What DeepSeek V4 Flash costs

USD, standard tier, global endpoint
RatePer 1M tokensPer 1K tokensWhat it covers
Input $0.14 $0.00014 Every token you send: prompt, history, documents.
Output $0.28 $0.00028 Every token the model generates, including hidden reasoning tokens.
Cached input $0.0028 $0.0000028 Input served from the provider’s prompt cache.

What that means in practice

The same three workloads are costed on every model page, so these numbers are directly comparable across the catalog. No prompt caching and no batch discount is assumed — the figures are what you pay before you optimise anything.

Support chatbot

2,500 six-turn conversations a day

$394 / month

$0.0053 per conversation · $4,791 a year

An 800-token system prompt, 400-token questions and 900-token answers, over six turns — each turn re-sending everything before it.

Document summariser

1,000 single-shot summaries a day

$57.96 / month

$0.0019 per conversation · $705 a year

One 12,000-token document in, an 800-token summary out, no conversation history. The case where input dominates the bill.

Coding agent

200 twelve-turn sessions a day

$318 / month

$0.053 per conversation · $3,863 a year

A 3,000-token system prompt, 1,500-token instructions and 2,500-token responses over twelve turns. Long sessions are where the quadratic cost of re-sent history stops being theoretical.

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Cheaper models in the catalog

Nothing cheaper is scored as highly as DeepSeek V4 Flash, so these are simply the cheaper options, best-scored first. Trading down here is a real trade.

ModelInputOutputBlended saving
GPT-5 Nano $0.05 $0.4 21%

Head to head

Specification

Context window1M tokens
Maximum output8K tokens
ProviderDeepSeek
StatusCurrent
Reasoning modelYes
VisionNo
Token countingEstimated at ~3.4 characters per token (Estimate — DeepSeek's tokenizer handles Chinese far more densely than English)

Where these numbers come from

Last checked against its source on 2026-08-02, and the published rates last actually moved on 2026-08-02. Source of record: LiteLLM’s community-maintained price map.

DeepSeek’s own pricing page

Regional and data-residency premiums, priority tiers, server-side tool fees and negotiated discounts are not included. Prices change without notice; this page is rebuilt every time the catalog does.