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Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
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WHY IT MATTERS
For engineers building AI-powered applications, the cost per token directly affects operational budgets and scalability. The dramatic price difference suggests that DeepSeek's V4-Flash could make large-scale inference more affordable, though the material does not provide any information on quality or performance trade-offs.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
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DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens.
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The per-test cost is $0.03, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86.
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This pricing is for a version of DeepSeek's flagship AI model, according to Artificial Analysis.
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Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
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