deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model. It's $0.14/million input and $0.27/million output pricing means this may currently be the best value-per-intelligence model out there. It's looking very good on the Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intel ✦ AI generated
Notes that Artificial Analysis places DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 above MiniMax M3, a larger 428B-parameter model.
Author: Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model.
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Highlights the model's pricing — $0.14/M input, $0.27/M output — and argues it may currently be the best value-per-intelligence model, with a strong showing on the Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task chart.
Author: It's $0.14/million input and $0.27/million output pricing means this may currently be the best value-per-intelligence model out there. It's looking very good on the Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task chart:
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Introduces DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 as the newest V4-family release with 'substantially enhanced agentic capabilities', noting its 304B parameters (167GB on Hugging Face) and arguing it punches well above its weight.
Author: The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight.
Recounts a hands-on test: the default reasoning level via OpenRouter gave a disappointing pelican image, but bumping reasoning level up to high produced something much better.
Author: I got a disappointing pelican from it using the default reasoning level via OpenRouter: But when I bumped reasoning level up to high I got something much better: llm -m openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 -t pelican -o reasoning_effort high
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