DeepSeek releases V4-Flash for general availability

DeepSeek made deepseek-v4-flash generally available on 31 July 2026, reporting that it substantially exceeded the V4-Pro-Preview across nine agent benchmarks on the same architecture, with the gains from further post-training. Pricing held at $0.14 and $0.28 per million tokens.

Why it mattered It kept DeepSeek’s prices far below comparable American models while the company claimed parity on agent benchmarks, sustaining the cost pressure Chinese laboratories had applied since 2025.