DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Is Now Live on the DeepSeek API Platform

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.

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