# DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Is Now Live on the DeepSeek API Platform > Source: > Published: 2026-08-21 09:37:54+00:00 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 leap over V4-Flash, bringing multimodal agent performance close to Opus-4.8. Try 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. 1/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" - 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: [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