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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 modelGemini 3.6 FlashGoogleRemove
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Discovery tierEfficientEfficient
AddedAug 21, 2026Jul 21, 2026
Limits
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output384KBest65.54K
Average output1.3K tokens932 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.22Best$0.75
Output$0.65Best$3.75
Cache read$0.0069Best$0.075
Cache write—$0.0417
Performance
Throughput155.2 tok/s303.2 tok/sBest
Time to first token2.1 sBest8.9 s
Request success (24h)99.7%Best99.5%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index34.3Best34.0
Coding Index69.169.2Best
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputNoYes
Audio inputNoYes
Video inputNoYes
Reasoning effortnone, low, high, maxminimal, low, medium, high

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

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

  • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash

Intelligence Index

  • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp34.3
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash34.0

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
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 69.2Top

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 54.0%Top
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 53.0%

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 23.0%Top
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 16.4%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 1,257 EloTop
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 955 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 1,433 EloTop
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 1,286 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 11.0%
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 17.4%Top

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 79.7%
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 80.0%Top

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: —
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 10.0%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 38.6%
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 40.8%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 90.8%
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 92.8%Top

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 12.1%Top
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 7.1%

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 50.3%
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 53.4%Top

Legacy evaluations

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 79.7%
    • Gemini 3.6 Flash: 80.0%Top

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
50.1%
About $0.11 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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