DeepSeek V4-Flash is being used for 3D games at cents-level costs

量子位 · wechat · 2026-08-04

DeepSeek’s V4-Flash is being described as absurdly cheap: the post claims people are running a 3D shooting game for 7 cents and a CS session for 50 cents. It also says intermediaries are layering on more subsidies, with NousPortal reportedly offering a 10x discount for a limited period.

The substantive claims

On OpenCode, DeepSeek Flash reportedly handled 8T tokens in a single day on August 1.
Cline, an open-source coding agent, said it increased free usage quotas after seeing how low the bill was.
The article argues that the real shift is not just lower cost, but the point where a much cheaper model is also close to top-tier capability.

Performance and pricing

The post says V4-Flash-0731 kept the same architecture and size as the April preview, but was improved via post-training.
Reported scores include DeepSWE 54.4, Cybergym 76.7, and TerminalBench2.1 82.7.
It cites Artificial Analysis intelligence index at 50, up 10 points, with performance said to be close to Opus 4.8.
The article repeats a published benchmark claim that DeepSeek is among the cheapest frontier models, with cached-miss pricing of $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens.

Broader takeaway

The post frames DeepSeek’s low price as a potential turning point for the ecosystem: more developers and smaller teams can now prototype products much more cheaply, and open models may become the default for many workflows.

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