Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132468 Points: 11 # Comments: 4

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (via) 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 Intelligence Index Task chart: I got a disappointing pelican from it using the default reasoning level via OpenRouter: llm -m openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 -t pelican -o reasoning_effort high Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.