DeepSeek launched deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp on its API, maintaining ultra-low V4-Flash pricing while achieving multimodal coding and agent performance approaching Claude Opus 4.8.

Key Takeaways

  • ✓Preserves ultra-cheap V4-Flash token rates for both text and vision multimodal inputs;
  • ✓Achieves massive leaps on multimodal agent benchmarks, rivaling Claude Opus 4.8 on GUI and diagram reasoning;
  • ✓Day-0 support added in DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1 for seamless agent orchestration and benchmarking.