Evidence in this edition9 source links

none reviewed yet · 4 benchmark observations · latest capture Sep 8, 2026

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Task fit77/100

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Cost at your workload$40.58

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At a glance

9 facts
Provider
DeepSeek
Type
API model
Access
DeepSeek API (OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible), Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, OpenRouter, self-hosting; concurrency limit 2,500 vs 500 for V4 Pro
Context
1,048,576 tokens
Maximum output
384K tokens
License / weights
Open weights
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Pricing notes
Peak $0.44 in / $1.32 out per 1M; off-peak exactly half at $0.22/$0.66; cache-hit input $0.014 peak / $0.007 off-peak. Peak hours 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Mon-Fri.

The practical trade-offs

Documented strengths

  • Fastest time-to-first-token measured here (0.95 s) with 131.8 tok/s throughput
  • Terminal-Bench 2.1 82.7% and SWE-bench Verified 79.0% at $0.44/$1.32
  • MIT-licensed 304B weights - practical to self-host on a single high-end node
  • 2,500-request concurrency limit, 5x the V4 Pro tier

Limitations to check

  • Design Arena Website 1223-1255 puts visual taste in the bottom third
  • SWE-bench Pro 52.6% is mid-pack
  • Text-only unless you switch to the vision-exp sibling
  • Two different Design Arena rows for near-identical names invite confusion
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Evidence & conditions

9 source links
9Source links
NoneReviewed records
4Benchmark runs
Sep 8, 2026Latest capture

Benchmark observations

Terminal-Bench 2.1 Inspect conditions
name
Terminal-Bench 2.1
value
82.7
unit
%
source Url
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
checked At
2026-09-08T19:28:18Z
attribution
provider-reported
configuration
Exact DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731; minimal DeepSeek Harness; reasoning_effort=max; temperature=1; top_p=0.95.
DeepSWE Inspect conditions
name
DeepSWE
value
54.4
unit
%
source Url
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
checked At
2026-09-08T19:28:18Z
attribution
provider-reported
configuration
Exact DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731; minimal DeepSeek Harness; reasoning_effort=max; temperature=1; top_p=0.95.
NL2Repo Inspect conditions
name
NL2Repo
value
54.2
unit
%
source Url
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
checked At
2026-09-08T19:28:18Z
attribution
provider-reported
configuration
Exact DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731; minimal DeepSeek Harness; reasoning_effort=max; temperature=1; top_p=0.95.
Arena WebDev Frontend Inspect conditions
name
Arena WebDev Frontend
value
1582
unit
arena_score
source Url
https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code/webdev/frontend
checked At
2026-09-08T19:28:18Z
attribution
benchmark-publisher
configuration
Exact row deepseek-v4-flash-high; source results dated 2026-09-05; human preference; confidence interval +/-11; 3377 votes. This is a checked source snapshot, not a newly run September 8 evaluation.

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