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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway

Vercel's AI Gateway has added DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental, a model that accepts images alongside text for tasks like describing pictures, reading screenshots, and analyzing charts. The model ID is deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp, supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP images, and retains tool use, reasoning, and caching. Vercel notes the experimental nature, advising fallback models for production use.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash with vision is now available on AI Gateway. This model is an experimental version that accepts images alongside text. You can ask it to describe a picture, read text out of a screenshot, or work through a chart in the same request as your prompt. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway. Tool use, reasoning, and caching all work the same as before.

Use deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp to get started:

Images can be JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WebP. The format is read from the file's own bytes rather than its name or the mediaType

you declare, so a mislabeled file still goes through.

The -exp

in the model ID marks this as an experimental release. Expect behavior to change, and keep a fallback model configured if it's on a production path.

To use it in a coding agent, run vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup to connect agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Pi, then select deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp

inside the agent.

Try Deepseek V4 Flash Vision Experimental in the model playground. AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including BYOK requests. View all language models on AI Gateway to see more.

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