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DeepSeek V4 Flash

API price (per 1M in/out)
$0.14 / $0.28
OpenRouter API8 Aug 2026
Community Elo (text)
1432
LMArena leaderboard (CC-BY-4.0)8 Aug 2026
Battle record
0W – 1L
in our published battles
What people say
Opinion is split
13 of 28 posts were positive (46%) · 95% range 30–64%
Partial coverage this run: reddit partial, youtube partial. The sample is what those sources returned, not everything that exists.
“I canceled Claude and coded 7 days straight with DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 — the honest cost & quality breakdown”
on DeepSeek V4 Flash · num_comments 228, score 497
125 public posts sampled over 90 days; 28 carried a clear view, 97 were announcements or neutral and are excluded from the score. Sources: github (ok), hackernews (ok), reddit (partial), youtube (partial). Classified by google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview under method audience-2026-08-c. Public posts skew negative — people write when something breaks — so this compares like with like rather than rating quality in the absolute. How this is measured
Battles fought
Gemini 3.5 Flash vs DeepSeek V4 Flash · Best free9–2
Every claim we hold (6)