DeepSeek Flash Latest

Review

In a line

DeepSeek Flash Latest is a DeepSeek language model that automatically redirects to the newest release in the DeepSeek Flash family. Its model ID is `~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest`.

What it's good at

The model supports reasoning, so it suits tasks that need step-by-step thinking. It also supports tool use.

It can take images as well as text, then produce text responses. That makes it suitable for questions combining written instructions with visual material.

Price in plain terms

Input costs $0.015 per million tokens, and output costs $0.677 per million tokens. Tokens are the small pieces of text a model reads or writes.

At the listed rates, reading a 500-word page costs under 0.01 cents. A chat turn with about 1,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens costs about 0.035 cents; 1,000 such turns cost about $0.35.

Context and limits

It can read up to 1,048,576 tokens in one request, roughly one million tokens. A single answer can contain up to 943,718 tokens.

The model returns text only, even though it can receive images. Because the name redirects to the latest Flash model, the underlying model may change over time.

Ways to use it

Use the model ID `~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest` wherever a provider makes this model available. It accepts text or image input, can use tools, and sends back text.

For a broader view of the family, see DeepSeek models.

Verdict

Choose this model if you want DeepSeek Flash access that follows the family’s newest release automatically, with image input, reasoning, and tool support. Its context window and maximum output support long material.

Look elsewhere if you need a fixed model version, non-text output, or a price based mainly on generated text. The low input rate helps reading-heavy workloads, while output is priced higher.