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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

Added Aug 21, 2026

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An experimental vision-enabled DeepSeek V4 Flash model that adds image understanding while retaining the text, reasoning, coding, tool-calling, and agent capabilities of the base model.

  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Vision
  • Structured output
Input
Text, Images
Output
Text
Reasoning effort
none · low · high · max
Discovery tier
Efficient

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$0.22
Output
$0.65
Cache read
$0.0069

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
1M
Max output
384K
Average output (7 days)
1.3K tokens
Longer than 81% of 465 models

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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekThis modelDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeekRemove
ProviderDeepSeekDeepSeek
Discovery tierEfficientOpen weights
AddedAug 21, 2026Oct 17, 2026
Limits
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output384K393.22KBest
Average output1.3K tokens465 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.22$0.10Best
Output$0.65$0.60Best
Cache read$0.0069$0.003Best
Performance
Throughput155.2 tok/sBest154.0 tok/s
Time to first token2.1 sBest2.2 s
Request success (24h)99.7%99.7%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index34.3Best24.7
Coding Index69.1—
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
Reasoning effortnone, low, high, maxnone, low, high, max

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Intelligence Index

  • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp34.3
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 101724.7

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp tested at max reasoning effort

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Better than 78% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 69.1
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 54.0%Top
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 47.8%

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 23.0%Top
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 14.2%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 1,257 EloTop
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,118 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 1,433 EloTop
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,340 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 11.0%Top
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3.8%

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 79.7%Top
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 55.3%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 38.6%Top
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 10.8%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 90.8%
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 12.1%Top
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 5.6%

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 50.3%Top
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 35.5%

Legacy evaluations

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 79.7%Top
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 55.3%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Throughput
155.2 tok/s
Faster than 77% of 251 models
Time to first token
2.1 s
Quicker than 74% of 251 models
Prompt cache hits
41.9%
About $0.13 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
99.7%
Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 96.7%
  • Healthy (98% or more)
  • Degraded (90–98%)
  • Down (under 90%)
  • No requests

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp",
    "reasoning_effort": "none",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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