DeepSeek V4 Flash Narrows Performance Gap with Claude

DeepSeek V4 Flash is narrowing the gap with Anthropic's Claude through lower API costs and a context of 1 million tokens. However, it remains challenging to surpass the Claude model in public benchmarks. The V4 Flash uses 284 billion parameters, with the active model being 'DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731'. The pricing is set at $0.66 off-peak and $1.32 peak, which is cheaper compared to Claude's output fee of $25 for the Opus 4.8. However, DeepSeek plans to raise the API prices for V4 Pro and V4 Flash, implementing a new pricing plan starting August 17. In performance comparisons, V4 Flash scored 82.7 on the Terminal Bench 2.1, while Claude scored 85.0, indicating a small difference. Nevertheless, Claude showed superiority in tests like NL2Repo and CyberGym. DeepSeek emphasizes that V4 Flash has expanded the cost-performance range, allowing enterprises to choose models based on top performance and bulk call tasks. The cost-saving effects of V4 Flash for enterprise AI need to be validated through actual implementation cases.

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