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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp

DeepSeek · 21 August 2026

First multimodal V4 model, an experimental vision add-on to V4-Flash that matches its text ability; ships with a new Files API.

Continued training adds a vision encoder and aligner to V4-Flash. Images are billed at up to 384 tokens each at Flash prices; works over Chat Completions, Messages and Responses. Weights on Hugging Face under MIT (305B listed).

Date
Friday, 21 August 2026
Lab
DeepSeek
Kind
model
Access
open weights
Price
V4-Flash prices; up to 384 tokens per image

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
ApexBench Pass@136.5 (V4-Flash 26.2)
Terminal Bench 2.1 83.9
company

API announcement is dated 2026-08-21; Hugging Face repo creation date is 2026-08-31.

Sources

  1. api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260821
  2. huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp

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