DeepSeek · 2026-04-24
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 pricing
DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $6.28 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $98.28 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $27.96 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash | inclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.0042 | 262K | $1.70 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.03 | $0.13 | $0.006 | 1M | $2.91 |
| Mercury 2.5 | inception | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.004 | 260K | $3.60 |
| Laguna XS 2.1 free variant | poolside | $0.06 | $0.12 | $0.03 | 262K | $4.14 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other DeepSeek models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 1.05M | $27.90 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.045 | $0.50 | $0.006 | 1.05M | $8.03 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.216 | $0.647 | $0.0069 | 1.05M | $17.46 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | $1.32 | $3.96 | $0.044 | 1.05M | $107 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | $0.119 | $0.238 | $0.024 | 1.05M | $8.21 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | $0.955 | $1.91 | $0.08 | 1.05M | $65.91 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423: questions
How much does DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 cost?
$0.091 per 1M input tokens and $0.182 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.018. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0002.
What is DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423’s context window?
1,048,576 tokens, with up to 943,717 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423?
Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.021 in and $0.063 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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