blog Simon Willison · 1h ago · agents

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with enhanced agentic capabilities

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DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, the latest model in its V4 family, featuring substantially enhanced agentic capabilities. The 304 billion parameter model is available on Hugging Face and OpenRouter.

Artificial Analysis ranks it ahead of MiniMax M3 (428B) with an intelligence score of 50 at approximately $0.028 per task.
Pricing is set at $0.14/million input tokens and $0.27/million output tokens, positioning it as a high-value option compared to competitors like Grok 4.5 or Claude Opus 5.
Performance varies by reasoning effort; default settings produced poor image generation results, while high reasoning effort yielded significantly better outputs.

The model offers strong value-per-intelligence metrics according to Artificial Analysis, though users may need to adjust reasoning levels to achieve optimal performance.

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