DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
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Captain's notes
Known for
- 1M-token context window with efficient hybrid attention, not just a nominal limit.
- Only 13B parameters activated per inference — fast and cheap to run.
- Adjustable reasoning effort: standard, high, or maximum (xhigh) modes.
- Strong coding and reasoning performance relative to its inference cost.
- Open weights available on Hugging Face for self-hosting.
Watch out for
- On pure knowledge tasks and the most complex agent workflows, it trails its sibling DeepSeek V4 Pro.
- 284B total parameters means self-hosting requires serious hardware; check VRAM requirements before committing.
- Weights use FP4 for MoE experts and FP8 elsewhere — not all inference stacks handle mixed precision cleanly.
Prompts to try
Compare with
- DeepSeek V4.1 FlashOpen-weights model1,048,576 token context · $0.04/M input, $0.68/M output
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Open-weights model1,048,576 token context · $0.01/M input, $1.28/M output
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Open-weights model1,048,576 token context · $1.32/M input, $3.96/M output
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Open-weights model1,048,576 token context · $0.96/M input, $1.91/M output
Questions people ask
- Are the weights open and can I run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally?
- Yes, the weights are published on Hugging Face under deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash. With 284B total parameters in FP4/FP8 mixed precision, you will need substantial GPU memory to run it locally — check the VRAM guide before downloading.
- What does DeepSeek V4 Flash cost and what is its context window?
- Via API it is priced at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens, with a context window of 1,048,576 tokens.
- How does DeepSeek V4 Flash differ from DeepSeek V4 Pro?
- Flash activates 13B parameters per token versus Pro's 49B, making it faster and cheaper; Pro has 1.6T total parameters and pulls ahead on knowledge-heavy tasks and the most demanding agent workflows, while Flash-Max (maximum reasoning mode) can approach Pro-level reasoning when given a larger thinking budget.
Captain's verdictA genuinely cheap, genuinely long-context reasoning model — the open weights make it worth a look before you reach for a closed alternative.
Show detailed breakdown
- 1Start at the floor.Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.7,000°running total
- 2Add the downloads.1,402,633 download-equivalents in all, from OpenRouter tokens. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.+1,844°8,844°running total
- 3Add the adoption rate.About 43,432 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.+348°9,192°running total
- =The heat score.Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.9,192°
- Heat score
- One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
- Floor
- The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
- Download-equivalents
- Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
- Log scale
- Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
- Likes
- Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
- Adoption rate
- How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
- Measured and estimated
- Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
- Seeder
- Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
- AI Horde
- A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
- Generation sites
- Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
- OpenRouter tokens
- A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
- Full model (checkpoint)
- The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
- LoRA and embedding
- Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
- Family and weights
- The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
- Age
- Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
- Family boost
- A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
- Stand-in score
- A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
- New! (grace period)
- A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
- Trend
- How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
- Typical model
- The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.






