{"slug": "deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-is-now-live-on-the-deepseek-api-platform", "title": "DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Is Now Live on the DeepSeek API Platform", "summary": "DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model now live on the DeepSeek API Platform, matching DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text capabilities while making a major leap on multimodal agent benchmarks, bringing performance close to Opus-4.8. The model supports mixed text and image input, with images tokenized at up to 384 tokens each at V4-Flash pricing, and DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1 released today with out-of-the-box support.", "body_md": "DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is now live on the DeepSeek API Platform! 🚀\n🔹 This experimental multimodal model matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text capabilities—including agents, reasoning, and world knowledge.\n🔹 On multimodal agent benchmarks, V4-Flash-Vision-Exp makes a major leap over V4-Flash, bringing multimodal agent performance close to Opus-4.8.\nTry it with model='deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp'. DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1 was released today with out-of-the-box support for the new model.\n1/n\n\n# DeepSeek on X: \"DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is now live on the DeepSeek API Platform! 🚀 🔹 This experimental multimodal model matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text capabilities—including agents, reasoning, and world knowledge. 🔹 On multimodal agent benchmarks, V4-Flash-Vision-Exp makes a major\"\n\n- Multimodality unlocks more agent use cases. 👀 V4-Flash-Vision-Exp works smoothly across agent frameworks, combining visual understanding with a wide range of tools to unlock more practical workflows. 2/nMultimodal API support 🔌 🔹 Set model='deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp' 🔹 Images are tokenized for billing: up to 384 tokens each, at V4-Flash pricing 🔹 Supports Chat Completions, Messages & Responses 🔹 Supports mixed text + image input; images can be provided via base64,Files API is now live. 📁 🔹 Free to use 🔹 Upload an image once, then reference it by file_id to save request bandwidth 🔹 Reuse the same image across requests—no need to upload it again Learn more:\n[api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_a…](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api)4/n - if only you didnt raise your prices so much... i loved going directly to deepseek api", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-is-now-live-on-the-deepseek-api-platform", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2090730032574631962", "published_at": "2026-08-21 09:37:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 10:15:15.412051+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp", "DeepSeek-V4-Flash", "Opus-4.8", "DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1", "DeepSeek API Platform", "Files API"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-is-now-live-on-the-deepseek-api-platform", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-is-now-live-on-the-deepseek-api-platform.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-is-now-live-on-the-deepseek-api-platform.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-is-now-live-on-the-deepseek-api-platform.jsonld"}}