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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

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Re: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

#11

This is more exciting than k3, IMO. Dsv4 models are extremely cheap to serve. Improving their capabilities has lots of downstream effects, as it becomes "good enough" for more and more tasks. DS was serving the pro version at extremely low prices for a long time, and they've had integrations with opencode & other providers, so they likely gathered a lot of data from real developers doing real tasks (on openrouter the…

Totally! This with DwarfStar delivers usable local AI (I hope!)

Re: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

#12
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DeepSeek V4 Flash (Preview → 2026-07-31) • Terminal Bench: 56.9 → 82.7 (+25.8) • Toolathlon: 51.8 → 70.3 (+18.5) Compared to GPT-5.6 Terra: • Terminal Bench: Flash 82.7 vs Terra 78.4 • Toolathlon: Flash 70.3 vs Terra 53.1 • DeepSWE: Flash 54.4 vs Terra 69.6 • Agents' Last Exam: Flash 25.2 vs Terra 50.4 Trading blows with Terra, which is pretty interesting. No clear winner on these benchmarks, and wildy differeing sco…

I think it's better than GPT Luna.

Re: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

#14
I wouldn't doubt GPT 4.6 Luna being in the top left quadrant's center on the Cost per Intelligence Index is not concerning for Liang Wenfeng. You have to remember DeepSeek v4 flash even though a bit cheaper, does not have vision abilities, which is a big draw for agentic tasks.

I admire DeepSeek's openness, but even they have been raising prices after their discounts.

Re: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

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DeepSeek V4 Flash (Preview → 2026-07-31) • Terminal Bench: 56.9 → 82.7 (+25.8) • Toolathlon: 51.8 → 70.3 (+18.5) Compared to GPT-5.6 Terra: • Terminal Bench: Flash 82.7 vs Terra 78.4 • Toolathlon: Flash 70.3 vs Terra 53.1 • DeepSWE: Flash 54.4 vs Terra 69.6 • Agents' Last Exam: Flash 25.2 vs Terra 50.4 Trading blows with Terra, which is pretty interesting. No clear winner on these benchmarks, and wildy differeing sco…

Open flash model is competing against OpenAI's 'Sonnet' model at the price of GPT 3, I am really excited about this release, hopefully it holds up in real work as well

Re: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

#17

I wouldn't doubt GPT 4.6 Luna being in the top left quadrant's center on the Cost per Intelligence Index is not concerning for Liang Wenfeng. You have to remember DeepSeek v4 flash even though a bit cheaper, does not have vision abilities, which is a big draw for agentic tasks. I admire DeepSeek's openness, but even they have been raising prices after their discounts.

They haven't raised prices though the plan was to increase it with peak hour usage for V4 Pro GA release, they didn't do that, so no price increases there I believe.

As for vision yeah it sucks but Luna is also 2x input and 1.5x output for 1M context...

That's around 0.4 in/1.8 out

DSv4 is wayyy cheaper.

And it's open now you have Luna at home if you have a decent set of GPUs you can run this on 2Sparks or one very expensive Mac or just like 6-8 5090s..

Re: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

#18
Woah, a 200B model competing with GLM-5.2 and getting close to Opus 4.8. Quite impressive.

If those numbers translate well to its general capabilities, with the great caching DeepSeek has, I feel like this model will get tons of usage.

Re: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

#19

I wouldn't doubt GPT 4.6 Luna being in the top left quadrant's center on the Cost per Intelligence Index is not concerning for Liang Wenfeng. You have to remember DeepSeek v4 flash even though a bit cheaper, does not have vision abilities, which is a big draw for agentic tasks. I admire DeepSeek's openness, but even they have been raising prices after their discounts.

Gpt 5.6 Luna cache read is $0.02 per mtok

V4 flash cache read is $0.0028 per mtok

That's not "a bit cheaper", just saying

Re: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

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DeepSeek V4 Flash (Preview → 2026-07-31) • Terminal Bench: 56.9 → 82.7 (+25.8) • Toolathlon: 51.8 → 70.3 (+18.5) Compared to GPT-5.6 Terra: • Terminal Bench: Flash 82.7 vs Terra 78.4 • Toolathlon: Flash 70.3 vs Terra 53.1 • DeepSWE: Flash 54.4 vs Terra 69.6 • Agents' Last Exam: Flash 25.2 vs Terra 50.4 Trading blows with Terra, which is pretty interesting. No clear winner on these benchmarks, and wildy differeing sco…

> Terminal Bench: Flash 82.7 vs Terra 78.4

Terra 87.4

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/

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