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Released April 24, 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek V4 Flash by DeepSeek is a 284B/13B-active MoE model with hybrid CSA+HCA attention, three configurable reasoning modes, and 1M-token context window.

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Model Overview

Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits

DeepSeek V4 Flash - Efficient Sparse MoE with Hybrid Long-Context Attention

DeepSeek V4 Flash is the efficiency-tier model in DeepSeek's V4 series: a Mixture-of-Experts language model sharing the same hybrid attention architecture as DeepSeek V4 Pro, positioned as the fast option within the V4 family. Both V4 models support a 1 million-token context window.

Architecture

V4 Flash shares the three core architectural innovations introduced across the V4 series:

  • Hybrid Attention (CSA + HCA): Combines Compressed Sparse Attention and Heavily Compressed Attention to keep long-context inference efficient at the 1M-token scale
  • Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC): Strengthens residual connections to stabilize signal propagation while preserving model expressivity
  • Mixed Precision Training: MoE expert parameters use FP4 precision; most other parameters use FP8.

Reasoning Workflow

Three configurable reasoning effort modes per request, identical in structure to V4 Pro:

  • Non-think - fast responses, no chain-of-thought
  • Think High - reasoning-augmented responses
  • Think Max (V4-Flash-Max) - maximum reasoning effort; officially documented as achieving comparable reasoning performance to V4 Pro when given a larger thinking budget.

Benchmark Performance

Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis

24.2%
Intelligence
56.2%
Coding Index
22.2%
Agentic Index

Accuracy & Capability Details

GPQA - Graduate Science89.4%
Humanity's Last Exam34.8%
SciCode - Scientific Coding45.3%
Instruction Following79.2%
Long Context Reasoning74.3%
τ²-Bench - Agentic Tasks95.0%
TerminalBench - System Control35.6%

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Model Details
General Info
ProviderDeepSeekAnthropicAnthropic
Release DateApril 24, 2026September 22, 2026September 28, 2026
Knowledge Cutoff--Jun 2026
Context & Limits
Context Window
1.0M
Best Context Window
1M1M
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Input Pricing
$0.11
Best Input Pricing
$4$2
Output Pricing
$0.23
Best Output Pricing
$20$10
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Benchmarks (0-100)
Intelligence Index24.4
57.6
Best Intelligence Index
56.0
Coding Index52.0--
Agentic Index26.3--
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Humanity's Last Exam

Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.

30%
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 30%
DeepSeek V4 Flash
61%
Claude Opus 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 61%
Claude Opus 5.5
55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Long Context Reasoning

Logical reasoning over long context windows.

72%
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 72%
DeepSeek V4 Flash
85%
Claude Opus 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 85%
Claude Opus 5.5
83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

SciCode Benchmark

Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.

40%
DeepSeek V4 Flash
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 40%
DeepSeek V4 Flash
67%
Claude Opus 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 67%
Claude Opus 5.5
61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.

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