DeepSeek ships V4-Flash at 3 cents per benchmark task
Artificial Analysis put Liang Wenfeng's model near Gemini 3.6 Flash on intelligence and roughly 105 times cheaper than Claude Fable 5 in benchmark test cost.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Reuters
Why it matters
Liang Wenfeng is forcing model buyers to measure intelligence per dollar alongside benchmark rank. If V4-Flash holds up in production, high-volume agent products gain room to lower prices or widen margins.
Liang Wenfeng's DeepSeek released V4-Flash on July 31st with the lowest average cost per task among the well-known AI models tested by Artificial Analysis, according to benchmark results reported by Reuters on August 3rd.…
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