deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (via) The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model.
- ▪deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (via) The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities".
- ▪It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight.
- ▪Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model.
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (via) The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model. It's $0.14/million input and $0.27/million output pricing means this may currently be the best value-per-intelligence model out there. It's looking very good on the Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task chart: I got a disappointing pelican from it using the default reasoning level via OpenRouter: But when I bumped reasoning level up to high I got something much better: llm -m openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 -t pelican -o reasoning_effort high
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