DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental

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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental adds image understanding to the V4 Flash architecture for visual reasoning and agents.

Key specifications

Specification score
56.9
Context window
1.05M
License
MIT
Parameters
304.65B

The specification score summarizes recorded features and limits. It is not a benchmark result.

Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Text input
  • Image input

Produces

  • Text output

Capabilities

ReasoningFunction callingVisionStreamingOpen weights

What is DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental?

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental adds image understanding to the V4 Flash architecture for visual reasoning and agents.

Experimental visual understanding

This release extends DeepSeek V4 Flash with a visual encoder and alignment components. It accepts images alongside text and returns text. The publisher presents it as an experimental multimodal checkpoint; it should be evaluated separately from a text-only V4 Flash API route.

Formatting and serving

The repository separates prompt encoding from reference inference and supplies both JSON content blocks and compact image-path notation. The released configuration sets 1,048,576 positions. Supported vLLM and SGLang recipes describe the vision path, tool parser, reasoning parser and DSpark configuration. Use the recipe for this exact checkpoint.

A visual agent trial

Give the agent a screenshot that changes the interpretation of a code issue, a chart question and a task with an absent visual detail. Check whether the final answer uses the supplied image correctly and whether tool arguments reflect that evidence. Keep the same screenshots and task harness across comparisons.

Deployment scope

The complete weight set is roughly 305B parameters and uses MIT licensing. Sparse computation and speculative decoding do not remove the memory needed to serve the checkpoint. This profile leaves hosted prices unknown and does not assume that an existing DeepSeek API account exposes the experimental vision model. Confirm the available route before configuring a managed client.

Sources

Model documentation

Current availability (13 October 2026)

The original first-party V4 Flash and V4 Flash Vision Exp models have retired. Their legacy API names are still accepted but are served by V4.1 Flash at its rates. Use deepseek-flash to request the current model explicitly. Downloadable checkpoints and independent hosts have their own deployment lifecycle.

How to evaluate DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental

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Tasks and inputs

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Experimental is listed for Image-text-to-text, Text generation. It accepts text, image and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

Documented limits: 1.05M context. Measure a completed task using the prompts, documents and tools your application will use. Include reasoning and retries in the result.

Choosing a deployment

The weights are downloadable under MIT. Check runtime support and size the complete model and working context for your expected concurrency.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. The linked publisher repository supplies the weights or reference inference files and explains the supported runtime.

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