{"slug": "deepseek-v4-flash-vision-experimental-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "title": "DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental now available on AI Gateway", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "[DeepSeek V4 Flash with vision](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp) is now available on AI Gateway.\n\nThis 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.\n\nUse `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp`\n\nto get started:\n\nImages can be JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WebP. The format is read from the file's own bytes rather than its name or the `mediaType`\n\nyou declare, so a mislabeled file still goes through.\n\nThe `-exp`\n\nin 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.\n\nTo use it in a [coding agent](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/coding-agents), run `vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup`\n\nto connect agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Pi, then select `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp`\n\ninside the agent.\n\nTry Deepseek V4 Flash Vision Experimental in the [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp).\n\nAI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including BYOK requests. [View all language models](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models?type=text) on AI Gateway to see more.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-experimental-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/deepseek-v4-flash-with-vision-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "published_at": "2026-08-21 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 17:13:39.030457+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Vercel", "AI Gateway", "DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental", "Claude Code", "Codex", "OpenCode", "Cursor", "Pi"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-experimental-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-experimental-now-available-on-ai-gateway.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-experimental-now-available-on-ai-gateway.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-experimental-now-available-on-ai-gateway.jsonld"}}