DeepSeek V4 Flash
Live per-token pricing via OpenRouter, verified 12 Jul 2026. Batch and long-context tiers are not published in the feed, so they are omitted rather than estimated.
An estimate from published per-token pricing and your assumptions. Actual costs vary by provider and usage tier.
Same workload as the calculator above, at each model's current price. Monthly USD.
Routed-token share over time. A price line joins it as real changes are recorded.
Low cost · adoption falling. Observed relationship, not proof of causation.
Availability monitoring is derived from OpenRouter provider uptime; it refreshes with the daily build. Latency and throughput are not exposed by the data source, so we do not report them rather than estimate.
| Context window | 1M |
| Reasoning | ✓ Supported |
| Tool calling | ✓ Supported |
| Structured output | ✓ Supported |
| Image input | — Not supported |
| Audio input | — Not supported |
| Video input | — Not supported |
| Open weights | ✓ Yes |
| API availability | ✓ Yes |
| Commercial license | Verify terms with the provider |
- Current rank
- #3
- Peak rank
- #1
- Routed share
- 9.93%
- Peak share
- 11.84%
- Weeks ranked
- 10
- First tracked
- 4 May 2026
- Region of origin
- Asia · China
- Provider
- DeepSeek
- Model family
- Not publicly disclosed
- Release date
- Not publicly disclosed
- Type
- Text
- Modalities
- text
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Weights
- Open weight
- License
- Not publicly disclosed
In the week ending 12 Jul 2026, DeepSeek V4 Flash fell 2 places to #3 with 9.93% of routed tokens and a peak rank of #1. Over 10 tracked weeks its routed share has moved from 4.32% to 9.93% (+5.61 pp).
A sourced weekly interpretation of what is driving this model's routing is added as the record accumulates. yellow3 does not publish a reason for movement unless the routed-traffic data or a cited source supports it.
| Week ending | Rank | Routed share | Δ share | Movement | Region rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jul 2026 | #3 | 9.93% | -1.50 | ▼ 2places down | #3 | ranked |
| 5 Jul 2026 | #1 | 11.43% | +1.46 | –no change | #1 | ranked |
| 28 Jun 2026 | #1 | 9.97% | -0.61 | –no change | #1 | ranked |
| 21 Jun 2026 | #1 | 10.58% | +0.69 | –no change | #1 | ranked |
| 14 Jun 2026 | #1 | 9.89% | -0.31 | –no change | #1 | ranked |
| 7 Jun 2026 | #1 | 10.20% | +0.43 | –no change | #1 | ranked |
| 31 May 2026 | #1 | 9.77% | -2.07 | –no change | #1 | ranked |
| 24 May 2026 | #1 | 11.84% | +4.18 | ▲ 1places up | #1 | ranked |
| 17 May 2026 | #2 | 7.67% | +3.35 | ▲ 3places up | #2 | ranked |
| 10 May 2026 | #5 | 4.32% | – | NEW | #3 | NEW |
| Date | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jul 2026 | $0.090 | $0.18 | — | OpenRouter listed price |
Price history begins when yellow3 started tracking this model and accrues one point per change from here. Only real, observed price changes are recorded.
- 4 May 2026First trackedDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 10 May 2026Entered top 20Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 10 May 2026Entered top 10Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 17 May 2026Entered top 3Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 17 May 2026Biggest weekly rise +3 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 24 May 2026Reached number oneDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 24 May 2026Peak routed share 11.84%Derived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
- 12 Jul 2026Biggest weekly fall -2 placesDerived from yellow3 routed-traffic data
Region reflects where the model's developer is headquartered. Figures are OpenRouter routing traffic, aggregated over a trailing seven days - developer routing behaviour, not the whole market.