Model index · Text · text generation · reasoning · open weights · DeepSeek · released 2026-08-01

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 pricing

Served by 20 providers from $0.0929 to $0.2563 per 1M tokens on the standard tier — a 2.8× gap for identical weights.

A reasoning model — the headline price is not the whole bill

This model thinks before it answers, and those thinking tokens are billed at the output rate while never appearing in the response. A request can therefore cost several times what the per-1M figure suggests, and the multiplier depends on your prompts rather than on anything we can publish. Compare it against other reasoning models — the alternatives below are ordered to put those first.

This model always redirects to the latest model in the DeepSeek V4 Flash family.

DeepSeek · 290.94B parameters · mit · first published 2026-08-01 · Text model · text generation · 1.05M context · description as published by the source, not written by us

Open weights: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash · 290.94B parameters counted from the weight files · licence mit · 2.3M downloads in the last 30 days . Parameter count and licence come from the public weights registry, not from a seller — and the download figure exists only for models published this way, so it is not a market-wide popularity measure.

$0.0929

Cheapest standard /1M — DigitalOcean

1.05M

Native context window

20

Providers serving it

n/a

Not scoreable via this route

We could not score this model — a limit of our harness, not a verdict

Tokens were billed but the visible content came back empty for most probes: the answer went to the model's internal reasoning channel, which our deterministic scorers cannot read. That is a gap in how we call it, not evidence the model is weak, and it is common on reasoning-first models. We say so rather than scoring it zero — a zero would read as "cheap and weak", which we have no basis to claim.

At 1M requests/month (1500 in / 500 out tokens), moving from Mancer 2 to DigitalOcean saves about $327/month.

Illustrative traffic shape, stated so you can check it against your own. Same weights both sides — but confirm quantisation and context below before switching.

Every provider and service tier

Standard on-demand rows first, cheapest of each group first. Tiers are not interchangeable — see the note below the table.

Provider In /1M Out /1M Blended /1M Tier Region Source
DigitalOcean cheapest standard $0.0679 $0.1680 $0.0929 standard third_party
StreamLake $0.0867 $0.1733 $0.1083 standard third_party
Baidu $0.0868 $0.1736 $0.1085 standard third_party
GMICloud $0.0882 $0.1764 $0.1103 standard third_party
DeepInfra $0.0900 $0.1800 $0.1125 standard third_party
SiliconFlow $0.1300 $0.2800 $0.1675 standard third_party
Alibaba $0.1340 $0.2680 $0.1675 standard third_party
Venice $0.1380 $0.2750 $0.1722 standard third_party
Parasail $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard third_party
Fireworks $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard third_party
Novita $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard third_party
Ambient $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard third_party
Cloudflare $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard third_party
AtlasCloud $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard third_party
CoreWeave $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard third_party
DeepSeek $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard official_docs
OpenRouter (default route) *
resells other hosts
$0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard provider_api
Novita $0.1400 $0.2800 $0.1750 standard provider_api
Phala $0.2000 $0.4000 $0.2500 standard third_party
Mancer 2 $0.1750 $0.5000 $0.2563 standard third_party

* OpenRouter chooses a host for each request, and the figure above is what its default choice costs — not a fixed rate for this model. Selecting a specific host through the same account costs whatever that host charges, which is why this row can sit above or below the hosts listed beside it. Token rates are passed through from the underlying provider with no markup, so the per-1M price above is what that host charges directly — OpenRouter's own charge sits on funding instead: 5.5% (min $0.80) by Stripe or 5% by Coinbase to buy credits, 5% of the equivalent spend if you bring your own provider key. So budget about 5% above the rate shown unless you already hold credit. Fee schedule.

Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 with alternatives

One model per vendor, ordered by how prominent the vendor is and how many independent providers serve the model — hosts only carry what customers ask for, so that is a real demand signal. This is not traffic or popularity data, which we do not have. Every alternative below does the same job — text generation — because a price comparison between a generator and, say, an upscaler is arithmetic rather than advice. Prices on both sides are standard on-demand rates, so the comparison is like for like — a discounted batch or flex rate is never shown against another model’s standard rate.

AlternativeVendor $/1M vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 QualityKindContextHosts
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic $2.00
Anthropic
2053% dearer 60/100 reasoning 200k 8
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Alibaba $1.21
DeepInfra
1203% dearer 100/100 reasoning
open weights
131k 4
Mistral Small 4 Mistral $0.2625
Mistral
183% dearer 40/100 reasoning 262k 2
Kimi K2.5 MoonshotAI $0.7875
DigitalOcean
748% dearer 75/100 reasoning
open weights
262k 14
MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi $0.1750
Xiaomi
88% dearer 100/100 reasoning
open weights
1.05M 5
MiniMax M2.7 Minimax $0.4200
Mara
352% dearer not measured reasoning
open weights
205k 13
GLM 4.7 Z.ai $0.7375
OpenRouter (default route)
694% dearer not measured reasoning
open weights
205k 10
Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA $0.9250
DeepInfra
896% dearer not measured reasoning
open weights
1M 4

Prices are the cheapest host for each model, blended at a 3:1 input:output ratio. "Quality" is our own probe suite where we have run it — see what it measures. A cheaper alternative is only a real saving if it also passes on the capability your workload needs.

Before you switch

Identical weights do not guarantee identical output. Check that the cheaper host serves the model at full precision rather than a quantised copy, that its context window matches what you need, and that its rate limits carry your peak traffic. A cheaper host that cannot take your throughput is not cheaper — it is an outage.

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Frequently asked

How much does DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 cost?

The cheapest standard-tier provider is DigitalOcean at $0.0929 per 1M tokens blended (3:1 input:output). The dearest is Mancer 2 at $0.2563 — a 2.8× difference for the same weights. Prices change often; verify with the provider before budgeting.

Which provider is best for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731?

Cheapest is not automatically best. Compare quantisation (a lossy copy of the weights changes output), the context window each host actually serves, and rate limits. Where a provider serves less context than the model's native window we flag it in the table above.

Can I switch providers for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 without changing code?

Yes, if you route through an abstraction. VernaOne exposes one API across every provider listed here, so switching host is a config change and you keep automatic fallback if the new one degrades.

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