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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 pricing
API list price by DeepSeek · checked Oct 23, 2026
$0.094 / $0.19per 1M tokens in / out
$0.10per task at high?
Price sheetper 1M tokens
| Input | $0.094 | list |
| Output | $0.19 | |
| Context | 1M | tokens |
Saved AA secondary quote for this exact release; not a refreshed first-party tariff.
Cost per task by effort?
highAPI default$0.10—
max$0.09—
per task
Same price per token at every effort; the bill grows with reasoning tokens. max costs 0.9× high.
In DeepSeek's line-upper 1M in / out
| DeepSeek OCR 2 | $0.03 / $0.03 | −74% |
| DeepSeek OCR | $0.03 / $0.10 | −59% |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | $0.20 / $0.32 | +96% |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | $0.27 / $0.27 | 2.3× |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | $0.30 / $1.20 | 4.5× |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | $0.43 / $1.12 | 5.1× |
| R1 0528 | $0.39 / $1.63 | 5.9× |
Cheaper for the same workvs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 at high
| GPT-6 Luna max | -34% | score +56% | $0.068 |
| MiMo v2.6 Flash thinkingOpen | -39% | score +55% | $0.062 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 high | -23% | score +55% | $0.079 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna xhigh | -17% | score +42% | $0.085 |
| MiMo v2.5 Pro thinkingOpen | -47% | score +7% | $0.054 |
Pricing questions
How much does DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 cost?›
$0.094 per 1M input tokens and $0.19 per 1M output tokens. One Intelligence Index task costs about $0.10 at the default effort.
Is DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 free to use?›
There is no free API tier, but the weights are open: you can run it on your own hardware for the cost of compute.
How does effort change the price?›
The price per token is the same at every effort. Higher effort spends more reasoning tokens: a task costs $0.10 at high, $0.09 at max.
What is a cheaper alternative to DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420?›
GPT-6 Luna at max effort costs -34% per task with a score +56% on .