DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official API Released, Agent Performance Nears Opus 4.8

机器之心 · wechat · 2026-07-31

The official API for DeepSeek-V4-Flash is now in public beta. Following extensive post-training, the new version significantly enhances agent capabilities and instruction following, with native support for the Responses API and Codex optimization.

V4-Flash delivers surprising results across multiple benchmarks: scoring 82.7 on TerminalBench2.1, 76.7 on Cybergym, 25.1 on AutomationBench, and 68.7 on DSBench-FullStack. Its overall agent performance is approaching that of Opus 4.8, but at just 1/90th of the price of Claude.

This upgrade applies exclusively to the V4-Flash API, leaving the App, Web, and Pro API versions unchanged for now. The official team also hinted that the more powerful DeepSeek-V4-Pro is coming soon.

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