DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 is served by 16 companies at prices ranging from $0.02 to $0.44 per million input tokens, a 18.3× difference for identical weights.

cheapest host · OpenInference
$0.02
price spread across hosts
18×
companies serving it
16
intelligence index
24.4

Is it worth it?

No cheaper model matches it on quality.

It beats gpt-oss-120b at the same quality band, for more money.

Every host, compared

The same weights, priced and configured differently by 16 companies. Precision matters: 4-bit builds measurably degrade output and cost the same.

Host$/1M in$/1M outCachedContextPrecisionUptime
OpenInferencecheapest$0.024$1.54$0.0241.05Mfp499.8%
Relace$0.030$1.28$0.0301.05Mfp4100%
StreamLake$0.083$0.165$0.0171.02Mfp899.7%
DeepInfra$0.090$0.180$0.0181.05Mfp897.6%
GMICloud$0.091$0.182$0.0181.05Mfp8100%
Venice$0.097$0.193$0.0201.00Munknown99.5%
DigitalOcean$0.098$0.196$0.0201.05Munknown100%
SiliconFlow$0.130$0.280$0.0281.05Mfp898.1%
Baidu$0.140$0.280$0.0281.05Mfp8100%
AtlasCloud$0.140$0.280$0.0281.05Mfp494.8%
Parasail$0.140$0.280$0.0701.05Mfp8100%
Alibaba$0.150$0.300$0.0301.00Mfp8100%
Mancer 2$0.190$0.500n/a1.05Mfp898%
Azure$0.210$0.560$0.0311.05Munknown99.9%
Wafer$0.400$0.170$0.0131.05Munknown96.2%
Cloudflare$0.440$1.32$0.014384Kunknown92.7%

3 of 16 hosts serve this model at 4-bit precision (OpenInference, Relace, AtlasCloud), at the same price as full-precision hosts. See why this matters.

What it costs to run

Marketing emails
$0.152
per 1,000 · short brief in, one email out
Support replies
$0.170
per 1,000 · ticket plus help-centre context
Lead enrichment
$0.312
per 1,000 · company page in, fields out
Long-form drafts
$0.612
per 1,000 · outline in, full draft out
Questions on docs
$1.13
per 1,000 · one large document, many questions
Agent / tool loop
$0.910
per 1,000 · long context reused each step

Priced on the median host. Change the workload on the leaderboard to see how the ranking moves.

Specification

Context, most hosts
1.05M · 1,573 pages
Context range across hosts
384K to 1.05M
Max output
944K
Cache discount
78% off cached input
Input types
text
Tool use
supported
Reasoning
optional
Arena Elo
1172 across 8 categories
Agentic Elo
n/a
AA Intelligence
24.4

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Host pricing and precision read live from OpenRouter’s endpoint API, compiled 12 October 2026. Free to quote with attribution. See all findings.