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The official release of the DeepSeek-V4-Flash API is now in public beta. The API calling method remains unchanged — simply set the model name to deepseek-v4-flash to use the latest version. Note 1: For the Code Agent tasks in the public benchmark sets, the official DeepSeek-V4-Flash was tested using the DeepSeek Harness minimal mode (to be released soon) as the framework, with the max effort level, topp=0.95, and temperature=1.0 Note 2: DSBench-FullStack is an internal full-stack development test set, and DSBench-Hard is an internal Coding Agent hard-problem test set The DeepSeek API now supports V4-Pro and V4-Flash, available via both the OpenAI ChatCompletions interface and the Anthropic interface. To access the new models, the base_url remains unchanged, and the model parameter should be set to deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek-v4-flash. The two legacy API model names, deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner, will be discontinued in three months (2026-07-24). During the current period, these two model names point to the non-thinking mode and thinking mode of deepseek-v4-flash, respectively. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is served via a temporary endpoint: base_url="https://api.deepseek.com/v3.2_speciale_expires_on_20251215". Same pricing as V3.2, no tool calls, available until Dec 15th, 2025, 15:59 (UTC Time). Both deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner have been upgraded to DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp. Both deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner have been upgraded to DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus. deepseek-chat corresponds to DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus's non-thinking mode, while deepseek-reasoner corresponds to its thinking mode. This update maintains the model's original capabilities while addressing issues reported by users, including: