DeepSeek V4 Flash (free lane) is a fast, low-cost model from DeepSeek, available here under the exact model id “deepseek-v4-flash:free”. In the DeepSeek line-up here it sits between DeepSeek V4 Pro and DeepSeek V4 Flash. DeepSeek has not published a release date we can cite; it has been available here since 11 Nov 2026.
DeepSeek documents tools, reasoning and json mode for it.
It costs $0.0392 per million input tokens and $0.0784 per million output tokens, so output is 2× the input rate. On the use cases below, output makes up 33% of the bill for budget coding, 14% for sub-agents and 17% for batch jobs, so trimming the context you send saves more than capping the answer. With a 3:1 input-to-output mix it ranks 2nd lowest-cost of the 27 models on this site.
There is no discounted cached-input rate for this model, so every input token bills at $0.0392 per million.
It is served through the OpenAI-compatible format at https://api.oneaiapikey.com/v1, so any SDK or tool that lets you set a custom base URL, for example Codex CLI, Cursor and Cline, can use it. It is not offered on the Anthropic Messages endpoint; pick an Anthropic-format model for Claude Code.