vs
1:2
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads overall.
- Pricing0:3
- Specs1:2
Verdict
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp offers ~7.8x larger context (1M vs 128K); DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp allows ~6.0x more max output (384K vs 64K); DeepSeek R1 ships open weights (MIT).
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp offers ~7.8x larger context (1M vs 128K)
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp allows ~6.0x more max output (384K vs 64K)
- DeepSeek R1 ships open weights (MIT)
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is ~1.5x cheaper on a blended token basis than DeepSeek R1
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- DeepSeek R1
- $1.10
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
- $0.77
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is about 1.4x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
Family
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
License
MIT
Proprietary
Open weights
Yes
No
Release
Jan 20, 2025
Aug 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
1M
Max output
64K
384K
Parameters
671B (37B act.)
304B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.55
$0.44
Output $/1M
$2.19
$1.32
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.96
$0.66
Speed
tok/s
45
-
TTFT (s)
1.2
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
84.0
—
GPQA Diamond
70.8
—
Humanity's Last Exam
8.5
—
AIME 2025
70.0
—
MATH-500
97.3
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
30.5
—
AA-LCR v1.1
57.7
—
CritPt
0.6
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
39.0
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
49.2
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
19.1
—
Aider Polyglot
56.9
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
38.3
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,398
—
| Metric | DeepSeek R1 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | — |
| Family | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | — |
| License | MIT | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Jan 20, 2025 | Aug 21, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 1M | B +872K |
| Max output | 64K | 384K | B +320K |
| Parameters | 671B (37B act.) | 304B | A +367 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.55 | $0.44 | B +$0.11 |
| Output $/1M | $2.19 | $1.32 | B +$0.87 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.96 | $0.66 | B +$0.30 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 45 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 1.2 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 84.0 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 70.8 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.5 | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 70.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 97.3 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 30.5 | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 57.7 | — | — |
| CritPt | 0.6 | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 39.0 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 49.2 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 19.1 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 56.9 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 38.3 | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,398 | — | — |
DeepSeek R1
- Context
- 128K / 64K out
- Parameters
- 671B (37B act.)
- Price
- $0.55 / $2.19
- Speed
- 45 tok/s · 1.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- MIT
Original R1 reasoning model - strong math with explicit chain-of-thought; superseded by R1-0528 / V4 for coding.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
- Context
- 1M / 384K out
- Parameters
- 304B
- Price
- $0.44 / $1.32 peak · $0.22 / $0.66 off-peak
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Experimental API-only vision variant of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (released Aug 21, 2026), adding image input (up to 600 images/request) while matching the text model on agents, reasoning, and world knowledge. Same rate card as V4-Flash: $0.44 in / $1.32 out peak, $0.22 / $0.66 off-peak, cache-hit $0.007 (per 1M). Benchmarks are DeepSeek's self-reported Harness numbers — close to but trailing Opus 4.8 on most rows (Terminal-Bench 2.1 83.9).
Benchmark charts
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