Model

DeepSeek-V4-Flash (Think High)

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DeepSeek · DeepSeek-V4 family · released Apr 24, 2026

Smaller, cheaper sibling MoE released alongside V4-Pro on the same day; fast default mode. (middle reasoning-effort tier, called 'Think High' on the official HF model-card benchmark table).

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic

2202.0

Elo · rank #62

Parameters

284B

Active params

13B (MoE)

Context

1M tokens

Architecture

Mixture-of-Experts (284B total / 13B active), hybrid Compressed Sparse Attention + Heavily Compressed Attention

License

MIT

Languages

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API price (in/out)

$0.14 / $0.28

Modalities

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Benchmark results

Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best

BrowseCompAgents53.5%#32

best: Kimi K3 · 91.2%

CodeforcesCoding2816#4

best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 3206

GPQA DiamondReasoning87.4%#48

best: GPT-6 Astra · 96.0%

Humanity's Last ExamReasoning29.4%#53

best: Claude Opus 5 · 64.7%

LiveCodeBenchCoding88.4%#14

best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 93.5%

MMLU-ProKnowledge86.4%#19

best: Claude Fable 5 · 91.5%

SWE-bench ProCoding52.3%#44

best: Claude Fable 5.1 · 81.2%

SWE-bench VerifiedCoding78.6%#26

best: Claude Opus 5 · 96.0%

Terminal-Bench 2.0Coding56.6%#50

best: Gemini 3.8 Flash · 89.4%

Run it locally

VRAM @ Q4

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VRAM @ FP16

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Fits on (Q4)

Multi-node cluster required

Throughput data unavailable.

Quantizations

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Fine-tune it

Permissive

QLoRA193.1 GB2× H200 141GB

LoRA604.9 GB4× B200 192GB

Full fine-tune4558.2 GBbeyond 8× B200

QLoRA SFT on ~10k samples ≈ $6.72 (2× H200 141GB)

Plan a fine-tune →

DeepSeek-V4 family

Elo progression across releases

DeepSeek-V4-Flash (Non-Think)Apr 20261596.6 DeepSeek-V4-Flash (Think High)Apr 20262202.0 DeepSeek-V4-Flash (Think Max)Apr 20262289.9 DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Non-Think)Apr 20261643.5 DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think High)Apr 20262351.3 DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max)Apr 20262487.3 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731Jul 20262697.3

Resources

HFdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash DOCShttps://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424/APIAvailable via DeepSeek API

API price $0.14/$0.28 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)