🤖 Artificial Intelligence Aug 3, 2026 · allglenn

DeepSeek-V4-Flash: the $0.28 Model that Just Embarrassed the AI Industry’s Pricing

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash: the $0.28 Model that Just Embarrassed the AI Industry’s Pricing
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Last Updated on August 3, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. How DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s hybrid sparse attention and MoE design deliver near-frontier agentic coding at a fraction of GPT and Claude’s API cost Twenty-eight cents. That’s what a million output tokens costs on DeepSeek-V4-Flash. The same volume on Claude Opus 4.8 runs about $25. And on the one benchmark category most production LLM budgets actually get spent on right now, agentic coding, Flash

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