Deepseek V4 Flash is now ~#2 open weight model to Kimi K3 and >50x cheaper

https://preview.redd.it/h7zv5tb3tmgh1.png?width=2854&format=png&auto=webp&s=507380e8f862c18f10f7c5c84da9e8d1c59139b0 Deepseek's new flash model is unexpectedly cheap and high-performing across useful benchmarks. It's priced at 0.09 / 0.18 per 1M. Truly "intelligence too cheap to meter". Seems to work pretty well on coding, reasoning chat topics for me. How's it holding up for you all in your testing and work? submitted by /u/davidthesong [link] [comments]

Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-07-31