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At $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.27 per million output tokens, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 may currently be the best value-per-intelligence model available, performing very well on the Intelligence Index versus cost.
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. ✦ AI generated
Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-31 · original ↗
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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- ·$0.14/M input, $0.27/M output tokens
- ·May currently be best value-per-intelligence model
- ·Strong showing on Intelligence Index vs. cost chart
- ·Input: $0.14 per million tokens
- ·Output: $0.27 per million tokens
- ·Low cost drives value-per-intelligence claim
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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, the latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, has substantially enhanced agentic capabilities and, at 304 billion parameters (167GB on Hugging Face), punches well above its weight.Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 90%Artificial Analysis ranks DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 ahead of MiniMax M3, a 428-billion-parameter model.Author · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 75%