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Specifications
ParametersThe learned values that shape how a model responds. B means billion and T means trillion. For mixture-of-experts models, the total count is larger than the number active for each token. Parameter count alone does not measure quality.
284B—
Context windowHow much information the model can work with in one request, measured in tokens — pieces of words or other data. This includes your question, attachments, conversation and reply. Limits can vary by model variant and provider.
1M1M
API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
—$0.75
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
—$3.75
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again.
—$0.075
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page.
$0.04OpenInference$0.375Google AI Studio
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input.
$0.136OpenInference$1.875Google AI Studio
$14.80OpenInference · fp4$338Google list price
These models have no shared benchmark scores.
Overview
CompanyDeepSeekGoogle
Release dateApr 24 2026Sep 2 2026
AccessOpen WeightClosed
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Frequently asked questions

DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Gemini 3.8 Flash has a verified first-party API price: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for DeepSeek-V4-Flash. DeepSeek-V4-Flash shipped 131 days before Gemini 3.8 Flash, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Context windows are 1M (DeepSeek-V4-Flash) vs 1M (Gemini 3.8 Flash). DeepSeek-V4-Flash is open weight, while Gemini 3.8 Flash is closed.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.