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DeepSeek V4 Flash API pricing
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
Budget reasoning. DeepSeek V4 Flash by DeepSeek, called through one INFRO key alongside every other model you run. We price it 44% below DeepSeek's direct rate — the same model, the same weights, reached through a different integration.
Pricing
DeepSeek direct
$0.313
per 1M tokens
INFRO
$0.175
per 1M tokens
You save
44%
on every unit
Per-token rates
$0.14 / 1M input tokens·$0.28 / 1M output tokens
The headline figure above is these two blended at a 3:1 input:output ratio, so one number is comparable across modalities. Your own ratio will move it.
Illustrative launch rates, reconciled against published provider pricing on 2026-08-24. Live rates come from GET /v1/models once your key is active.
Calling DeepSeek V4 Flash
POST /v1/chat/completionsAt launch — Committed to the first release. In build now, not usable yet.import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["INFRO_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://api.infro.io/v1",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)What this modality supports
- Streaming
- Tool calling
- Structured outputs
- Prompt caching
Frontier and open-weight language models behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Streaming, tool calling, structured outputs, and vision pass straight through — and prompt caching is billed at the provider's cached rate, so the discount compounds.
Alternatives for budget reasoning
Same modality, nearest in price. All of them share the request shape above, so comparing them is a one-word change.
Work out what DeepSeek V4 Flash would cost you
Put your current spend on this model into the calculator and see the same workload priced here — or have us read your real usage.