Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among …
A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model, V4-Flash, is the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among well-known models globally. According to research firm Artificial Analysis, DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens.
This translates to an average cost of $0.03 per test for V4-Flash. In comparison, Kimi K3 from Chinese rival Moonshot AI costs $0.86 per test, while OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol costs $1.86 per test, as per Artificial Analysis.
DeepSeek's V4-Flash performs on par with Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash but trails offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup officially released its V4-Flash model recently, its latest attempt to offer ultra-low-cost AI alternatives.
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