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DeepSeek V4 Flash API pricing

As of October 16, 2026, DeepSeek V4 Flash costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on the DeepSeek API. Cached input is $0.0060 per million.

It is the 4th cheapest of 7 DeepSeek models tracked here, by blended price. The closest Budget-tier model from another provider is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) at $0.25 / $1.50; DeepSeek V4 Flash is 7% cheaper. Same list price as DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp. First listed in the LiteLLM price data on June 16, 2026. Its price has been cut 1 time and raised 1 time since.

Input / 1M tokens$0.30
Output / 1M tokens$1.20
Context window1M
Max output393K

Every published rate

RatePer 1M tokens
Input (standard)$0.30
Output (standard)$1.20
Cached input (read)$0.0060

What it costs in practice

TaskTokensPer requestPer 1,000 requests
Chatbot reply1,000 in / 500 out$0.0009$0.90
Summarize a long document20,000 in / 1,000 out$0.0072$7.20
Coding agent step50,000 in / 2,000 out$0.02$17.40

Standard rates, no caching or batch discount. Compare your own numbers across all models →

Price history

$1.32 $0 2026-06-162026-10-16
Per 1M tokens. ━ Output · ┅ Input
DateModelChange
2026-09-11DeepSeek V4 FlashOutput price: $1.32 → $1.20 (-9%) source
2026-09-11DeepSeek V4 FlashInput price: $0.44 → $0.30 (-32%) source
2026-08-19DeepSeek V4 FlashOutput price: $0.28 → $1.32 (+371%) source
2026-08-19DeepSeek V4 FlashInput price: $0.14 → $0.44 (+214%) source
2026-06-16DeepSeek V4 FlashNew model listed: $0.14 in / $0.28 out source

Dates are when each change first appeared in the LiteLLM price data, usually within days of the provider's announcement.

Details

ProviderDeepSeek
Price tierBudget
FeaturesVision, Reasoning, Prompt caching, Tool use
API model namesdeepseek-flash, deepseek-v4-flash
Official pricingapi-docs.deepseek.com

Models at a similar price

ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Codestral$0.30$0.90
GPT-5.6 Luna$0.20$1.20
GPT-5.4 Nano$0.20$1.25
DeepSeek V3$0.27$1.10
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite$0.25$1.50
GPT-5 Mini$0.25$2.00

Other DeepSeek models

ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1M
DeepSeek V4 Pro$1.32$3.96
DeepSeek R1$0.55$2.19
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp$0.30$1.20
DeepSeek V3$0.27$1.10
DeepSeek V3.2$0.28$0.40
DeepSeek Coder$0.14$0.28