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.
Model Overview
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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
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| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | DeepSeek | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | April 24, 2026 | September 22, 2026 | September 28, 2026 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | - | - | Jun 2026 |
| Context & Limits | |||
| Context Window | 1.0M Best Context Window | 1M | 1M |
| Pricing (per 1M tokens) | |||
| Input Pricing | $0.11 Best Input Pricing | $4 | $2 |
| Output Pricing | $0.23 Best Output Pricing | $20 | $10 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | text | textimagefile | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 24.4 | 57.6 Best Intelligence Index | 56.0 |
| Coding Index | 52.0 | - | - |
| Agentic Index | 26.3 | - | - |
Humanity's Last Exam
Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.
Long Context Reasoning
Logical reasoning over long context windows.
SciCode Benchmark
Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.
Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.
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