# DeepSeek V4-Flash API Exits Public Beta

> DeepSeek has taken its V4-Flash model out of public beta, and the Chinese lab is again competing hardest where it hurts rivals most, on price. The model is listed at fourteen cents per million input tokens and twenty-eight cents per million output, undercutting the comparable offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic by a wide margin, while posting respectable scores on agentic and coding benchmarks including an 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1. The story here is less about topping any single leaderboard and more about the shape of the market. DeepSeek keeps demonstrating that strong performance no longer requires premium pricing, which steadily erodes the assumption that frontier capability and high cost go hand in hand. Its support for structured agent output through a Responses API also signals that it is chasing the same agentic use cases the American labs are betting on. For developers weighing where to build, a capable model at a fraction of the price is hard to ignore, and for the incumbents it is a persistent reminder that the floor on AI pricing keeps dropping from an unexpected direction.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: TechNode · Published Wednesday, August 5, 2026_

## Wortins' read

DeepSeek has taken its V4-Flash model out of public beta, and the Chinese lab is again competing hardest where it hurts rivals most, on price. The model is listed at fourteen cents per million input tokens and twenty-eight cents per million output, undercutting the comparable offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic by a wide margin, while posting respectable scores on agentic and coding benchmarks including an 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1. The story here is less about topping any single leaderboard and more about the shape of the market. DeepSeek keeps demonstrating that strong performance no longer requires premium pricing, which steadily erodes the assumption that frontier capability and high cost go hand in hand. Its support for structured agent output through a Responses API also signals that it is chasing the same agentic use cases the American labs are betting on. For developers weighing where to build, a capable model at a fraction of the price is hard to ignore, and for the incumbents it is a persistent reminder that the floor on AI pricing keeps dropping from an unexpected direction.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechNode](https://technode.com/2026/07/31/deepseek-puts-v4-flash-api-into-public-beta/)

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