2 DeepSeek V4 Flash
This month, I started working on building Mogra, an OCR engine to handle Devanagari and Latin that does not involve neural networks so that it can run fast even on a toaster. I had some credits lying around on the DeepSeek platform and decided to make use of it. I haven't really used the API all that much since my project in early 2025 when I translated about 60K pages of public domain English classics into Sanskrit. And DeepSeek V3 hasn't really impressed me as a coding assistant.
But... I was pleasantly surprised when DeepSeek V4 Flash proved me wrong. Not only was it smart, but it was blazing fast, and the pricing was incredibly attractive:
| Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Cached Read | $0.0028/M |
| Input | $0.14/M |
| Output | $0.28/M |
Until DeepSeek bumped prices up yesterday, that is.
| Type | Off-peak | Peak |
|---|---|---|
| Cached Read | $0.007/M | $0.014/M |
| Input | $0.22/M | $0.44/M |
| Output | $0.66/M | $1.32/M |
I got a lot of work done with it and renewed my OpenCode Go subscription when the DeepSeek credits ran out.