DeepSeek V4
DeepSeek's latest Mixture-of-Experts model - frontier performance at a fraction of US model costs
Context window
128K
Input / 1M tokens
Free
Output / 1M tokens
Free
Provider
DeepSeek
Open-source weights available. API pricing significantly cheaper than US frontier models.
DeepSeek V4 is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that achieves frontier-level performance on coding and reasoning tasks. The sparse activation design activates only a subset of parameters per token, keeping latency low while maintaining strong output quality. Available as open-source weights. Includes a Flash variant optimised for low-latency use cases.
Strengths
- ✓Mixture-of-Experts architecture - high capability, low activation cost
- ✓Open-source weights freely available
- ✓Strong coding and reasoning benchmarks
- ✓Flash variant offers low-latency inference
- ✓Significantly cheaper to run than US frontier models
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