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DeepSeek V4 Flash
The pricing specification for DeepSeek V4 Flash is $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 for output, putting its output cost close to ninety times lower than Opus 5. On the WebDev Arena benchmark, however, it registers 1585, at the bottom of our table and only 31 points above the lowest recorded row.
- $0.28 output rate
- 384k-token output ceiling
- 1M-token context window
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Cost specification, and the real scope of this price reduction
Opus 5 is billed at $25 per million output tokens, against $0.28 for DeepSeek V4 Flash. On the input side the ratio is $5 to $0.14, roughly thirty-six times. This is not a discount; the cost structure sits in an entirely different bracket.
The same table records a second variable: on the web-dev leaderboard, DeepSeek scores 1585 against Opus 5 at 1692, a gap of 107 points and only one step above the lowest figure in the table. The trade-off is explicit and unambiguous: reduced cost against degraded throughput on the hardest task class.
A 384k-token output ceiling: a specification rarely factored into comparisons
Most comparison tables report only the context window and omit the output ceiling, even though for a large share of workloads the output ceiling, not the input window, is the actual constraint. DeepSeek V4 Flash processes up to 384,000 tokens in a single response; the Anthropic models cap at 128,000 on this specification, a threefold difference in capacity.
This capacity carries operational weight on workloads where both input and output run long: rewriting a lengthy document, translating a large file in a single pass, or generating a dataset. With a 128k-ceiling model, the text has to be segmented and then reassembled, and that segmentation step is exactly where quality fails.
A cache rate fifty times lower that is not reported in the price column
DeepSeek publishes two separate input rates: $0.14 for cache miss and $0.0028 for cache hit. The ratio between the two is exactly fifty to one.
We deliberately excluded the cache-hit rate from the comparison table price column: no real workload runs at one hundred percent cache, and printing a figure that only holds under best-case conditions turns a comparison table into a misleading claim. If your system architecture includes a long fixed prefix that every request opens with, your real operating cost lands somewhere between the two figures, and computing that figure is on your engineering team.
A composite score of 38.1 out of 100, twenty points from a single component
In the coding ranking table, DeepSeek composite score is 38.1, of which twenty points come from the score-per-dollar component, where its 5660 is the highest figure in the table and captures the full twenty points of weight in that column. From the forty-point leaderboard component it takes only 9 points, because 1585 sits near the floor of the table distribution. Ten points for the general text leaderboard and five points for Iran access are both unrecorded for this version and stay empty.
In other words, this model captures one component outright while taking only 9 of 40 in the largest one. Reading the ranking from the final figure alone does not give an accurate picture of the score composition; the origin of each point has to be examined. That is why every row in the table displays its own component-by-component breakdown.
Specifications
Every number here comes from the vendor's own page, with that page linked beside it.
Using it from Iran
This column carries a date and says how it was checked, because most listicles guess it. Where we have only read a vendor policy page, the note below says exactly that.
- Reachable
- not checked
- Payment
- not checked
- Free tier
- no
How we checked: DeepSeek publishes no formal specification of supported countries; the access column therefore remains unverified and receives no score.
Documented strengths
- The lowest price point in the entire coding table by a wide margin: $0.14 in and $0.28 out
- A 384,000-token output ceiling, three times the Anthropic models
- A one-million-token context window, level with the highest-priced models in the table
- First place in the score-per-dollar component at 5660, capturing all twenty points of its weight
Room for improvement and technical considerations
- On the web-dev leaderboard, its 1585 sits at the bottom of our table, 107 points below the top and only 31 points above the lowest recorded row.
- Its row on the general text leaderboard has not been extracted, leaving ten points of the table weight empty.
- DeepSeek publishes no list of supported countries, so the Iran column status is recorded as unverified.
- It scores zero on the tooling-maturity component: no official agent tooling or editor extension is listed.
- The $0.0028 rate applies only under cache hit and is not a realistic figure for an ordinary workload.
Technical verdict
For high-volume, repeated workloads whose output your team reviews downstream anyway, this is the most defensible route on the table from a cost-structure standpoint. For complex code that has to be correct on the first pass, no pricing discount closes a 107-point gap. Its operating envelope is bulk processing, not the core of a production stack.
Frequently raised questions, with documented answers
What is the pricing specification for DeepSeek V4 Flash
The input rate is $0.14 and the output rate is $0.28 per million tokens. Under cache hit, the input rate drops to $0.0028.
Is DeepSeek suited to coding workloads
For bulk work, yes; for high-complexity code, no. It scores 1585 on WebDev Arena, 107 points below Opus 5 and near the bottom of our table.
What does a 384k-token output ceiling mean
It means a single response can run that long. This is distinct from the context window: the context window caps input data, the output ceiling caps returned data.
Is DeepSeek reachable from Iran
Unverified. DeepSeek publishes no list of supported countries, and no independent measurement from an Iranian connection is available to us.