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DeepSeek V4 Flash cost & VRAM calculator

What does DeepSeek V4 Flash cost to run for your workload, and can you run it on your own hardware? Set your workload below - we compute per-provider API cost live and tell you honestly whether local hardware can run it.

LOCAL ISN'T PRACTICAL

This is where owning stops making sense

DeepSeek V4 Flash is a 284-billion-parameter model. No rig an individual can buy runs it - so unlike a workstation GPU model, there's no break-even to compute. The honest answer for nearly everyone is the per-provider API cost below.

284B total, 13B active per token (MoE). Same FP4+FP8 hybrid-attention family as V4 Pro: Compressed Sparse Attention (CSA) + Heavily Compressed Attention (HCA) across 61 layers, manifold-constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC), Muon optimizer, 32T+ pretraining tokens. Context: 1M native, 384K max output; three modes (non-think / think-high / think-max). The April 2026 release of V4 Flash. Superseded 2026-07-31 by DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 - an iterative update with a 10-point Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index jump (40 to 50), agentic Elo 1189 to 1559, and Terminal-Bench 2.1 +17 to 79%. The 0731 is the model the deepseek-chat / reasoner API aliases now route to. Open weights under MIT.

Your workload

Casual Power user Team of 5 Codebase task

DeepSeek V4 Flash runs an always-on thinking mode. Reasoning (thinking) tokens are billed at the output rate ($15.00/M), so count them here to see the thinking portion of your bill.

API cost for your workload

Provider Rate ($/1M) Monthly cost
Relace $0.05 in · $0.45 out · $0.05 cache $0.0 cheapest
StreamLake $0.08 in · $0.17 out · $0.02 cache $0.0 cheapest
DeepInfra $0.09 in · $0.18 out · $0.02 cache $0.0 cheapest
GMICloud $0.09 in · $0.18 out · $0.02 cache $0.0 cheapest
Venice $0.10 in · $0.19 out · $0.02 cache $0.0 cheapest
DigitalOcean $0.10 in · $0.20 out · $0.02 cache $0.0 cheapest
SiliconFlow $0.13 in · $0.28 out · $0.03 cache $0.0 cheapest
Crusoe $0.14 in · $0.28 out · $0.03 cache $0.0 cheapest
Parasail $0.14 in · $0.28 out · $0.07 cache $0.0 cheapest
AtlasCloud $0.14 in · $0.28 out · $0.03 cache $0.0 cheapest
Baidu $0.14 in · $0.28 out · $0.03 cache $0.0 cheapest
Alibaba $0.15 in · $0.30 out · $0.03 cache $0.0 cheapest
Azure $0.21 in · $0.56 out · $0.03 cache $0.01
Cloudflare $0.44 in · $1.32 out · $0.01 cache $0.01
Wafer $0.60 in · $0.17 out · $0.20 cache $0.01
Mancer 2 avoid $0.19 in · $0.50 out · $0.02 cache $0.0 cheapest
Fireworks avoid $0.10 in · $0.21 out · $0.02 cache $0.0 cheapest

Monthly cost is an estimate from list prices and your workload - verify against the provider before committing. Cached fraction applies the cache rate to that share of input.

Can you run it locally?

NO - NO INDIVIDUAL RIG RUNS IT

DeepSeek V4 Flash has no published quantization that fits a rig one person can buy, so there's no local-hardware recommendation and no break-even to compute. The honest answer is the per-provider API cost above.

284B total, 13B active per token (MoE). Same FP4+FP8 hybrid-attention family as V4 Pro: Compressed Sparse Attention (CSA) + Heavily Compressed Attention (HCA) across 61 layers, manifold-constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC), Muon optimizer, 32T+ pretraining tokens. Context: 1M native, 384K max output; three modes (non-think / think-high / think-max). The April 2026 release of V4 Flash. Superseded 2026-07-31 by DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 - an iterative update with a 10-point Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index jump (40 to 50), agentic Elo 1189 to 1559, and Terminal-Bench 2.1 +17 to 79%. The 0731 is the model the deepseek-chat / reasoner API aliases now route to. Open weights under MIT.

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