DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash (free), DeepSeek — route, pricing & source

DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for fast inference and...

OpenRoutermediumLast checked: May 14, 2026
Input
$0.00 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Output
$0.00 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Cached input
Not available
Not available
Cache write
Not available
Not available

Context and limits

Context window
1.0M
Max output
384,000
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Weight access
Open weights
Availability
Unknown
Capability flags
ToolsReasoningLong context

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Access and license

Official API
No
Open weights
No
Self-hostable
No
License
Open sourceMITCode/weights ship under an open license (often MIT / Apache‑2.0). MIT is a short permissive license: use/modify/redistribute freely with a copyright notice—always read the upstream project text.

Example costs

Scenario: 1K input + 300 output tokens / request

10,000 requests
$0.00
100,000 requests
$0.00
1,000,000 requests
$0.00

Cheaper alternatives

Lower-cost models for the same scenario

No cheaper alternative for this scenario.

Source

Source
OpenRouter Models API
Confidence
medium
Route
OpenRouter
Last checked
May 14, 2026
Source notes
  • Includes Hugging Face benchmark data only when the dataset is public, ungated, allowlisted, and matched by reviewed aliases.
Open source
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