# DeepSeek V4 Flash officially exits preview at bargain pricing

> DeepSeek has moved its V4 Flash model out of preview, and the headline is the price. The efficiency-tuned mixture-of-experts system carries 284 billion parameters with just 13 billion active, offers a one million token context window, and lists at 0.14 dollars per million input tokens and 0.28 for output. With caching, input drops to a fraction of a cent, a roughly 98 percent discount for repeated context. The technical twist is that DeepSeek says this leaner model beats its own much larger 1.6 trillion parameter Pro version on agent benchmarks, a reminder that raw size is no longer the whole game. The MIT-licensed release supports coding, chat, and agent workflows, with Responses API and Codex compatibility expected shortly. For anyone building on top of these systems, aggressive pricing from Chinese labs keeps hammering the cost of intelligence downward. Each release like this pressures Western providers on margins and pushes the whole market toward treating capable models less as premium products and more as cheap, metered infrastructure.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Hugging Face · Published Tuesday, August 4, 2026_

## Wortins' read

DeepSeek has moved its V4 Flash model out of preview, and the headline is the price. The efficiency-tuned mixture-of-experts system carries 284 billion parameters with just 13 billion active, offers a one million token context window, and lists at 0.14 dollars per million input tokens and 0.28 for output. With caching, input drops to a fraction of a cent, a roughly 98 percent discount for repeated context. The technical twist is that DeepSeek says this leaner model beats its own much larger 1.6 trillion parameter Pro version on agent benchmarks, a reminder that raw size is no longer the whole game. The MIT-licensed release supports coding, chat, and agent workflows, with Responses API and Codex compatibility expected shortly. For anyone building on top of these systems, aggressive pricing from Chinese labs keeps hammering the cost of intelligence downward. Each release like this pressures Western providers on margins and pushes the whole market toward treating capable models less as premium products and more as cheap, metered infrastructure.

## Source

[Read the full story at Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/blog/ResterChed/deepseek-v4-flash-official-release)

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