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Deprecated model

Deprecation date: 2026-09-10.

Use DeepSeek Flash →
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OpenRouter DeepSeek V4 FlashPricing & API costs

Deprecated DeepSeek alias. The official updates page points callers to deepseek-flash.

TextImage
Official docs
Rates checked USD pricing
OPENROUTER CHANNEL
Published rates

$0.083 input · $0.017 cached input · $0.165 output / 1M tokens

Official pricing

Context window

1,048,576 tokens

Maximum output

384,000 tokens

Release date

2026-04-24

API model ID

deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

Model overview

Understand the model before estimating your workload.

Use the model ID deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash through OpenRouter. The prices and limits on this page apply to that specific listing, with source data checked on 2026-10-12.

OpenRouter DeepSeek V4 Flash has a published context window of 1,048,576 tokens. The maximum output for this channel is 384,000 tokens. Budget context space for your prompt, conversation history, retrieved material, and the response. Context capacity and output limits are different; your input and response must fit within the request limits. A larger window does not make those tokens free.

This listing uses the StreamLake endpoint rate through OpenRouter. Routing to another endpoint can change the price or output limit. Compare the endpoint shown here with the one your application actually uses.

Pricing

StreamLake rate via OpenRouter.

Per 1M tokens

Input

$0.083

Cached input

$0.017

Output

$0.165

Batch pricing

OpenRouter has separate batch model IDs; those rates are not included in the standard listing.

How billing works

The details that turn a token rate into an actual bill.

Use the published billing unit

This model uses / 1M tokens. Do not substitute a text-token estimate for image, audio, video, or document charges.

Cache hits have their own rate

The listed cached-input price is $0.017 per million tokens. Reusing a prompt does not automatically qualify: use the provider's reported cached-token count, and account for any cache-write or storage charges.

Check discounts and rate tiers

No batch multiplier is applied to the examples on this page. Check the pricing source before assuming an asynchronous job receives a discount. Review the provider's pricing terms for workload-specific conditions.

Account for the complete workflow

Retries, follow-up calls, and agent tool loops increase request counts. Search, storage, and other tool charges can be billed separately from model inference. Use actual API usage logs to calibrate a budget before scaling traffic.

Capabilities and limits

What the API supports and where limits apply.

Provider
OpenRouter
Model type
Text tokens
Family
deepseek
Access
OpenRouter
Modalities
Text · Image
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
384,000 tokens
Released
2026-04-24
Deprecation date
2026-09-10

Model relationships

Aliases, snapshots, and replacements for this model.

Replacement
DeepSeek Flash

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The same model can have a different ID, price, or output limit depending on how you access it. These are the channels currently tracked in this catalog; they are not a complete list of every hosting provider.

Direct provider APIdeepseek-v4-flash
Deprecated

Deprecation date:

Max output: 393,216

Text: $0.15 input · $0.003 cached input · $0.60 output / 1M tokens

OpenRouterCurrent pagedeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
Deprecated

Deprecation date:

Max output: 384,000 · StreamLake endpoint

$0.083 input · $0.017 cached input · $0.165 output / 1M tokens

Sources

Official pages and the date this information was checked.

Last checked
2026-10-12
Source links
3

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Frequently asked questions

OpenRouter pricing checked on 2026-10-12: $0.083 input · $0.017 cached input · $0.165 output / 1M tokens. These are OpenRouter channel rates; a different endpoint may have different pricing.

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