Initial DeepSeek V4 Flash snapshot for economical reasoning, coding, and million-token agent workloadsDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 is offered by 4 providers on this page. No official API price is listed for it; the prices below come from third-party channels. The lowest paid channel is Merge Gateway at $0.139 / $0.278 per 1M. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. Prices vary about 1.4× across the providers that host it.
The context window is 1,000,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 131,072 to 1,048,576, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-05.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.14 | $0.28 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| NanoGPT deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0423:thinking | Gateway | $0.14 | $0.28 | $0.028 | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 384,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.14 | $0.28 | $0.028 | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 384,000 | |
| Ofox | Gateway | $0.19 | $0.51 | $0.028 | — | 1,000,000 | 384,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.