Explore DeepSeek models: current V4.1 Flash and V4 Pro API features and token pricing, plus OCR and R1 open-weight guides for local use and research.
For most new applications, start your DeepSeek Flash vs Pro evaluation with Flash. Its lower published token rates, native image input, and higher concurrency allowance make it a useful baseline. Choose or retain Pro when your own text-workload results, reliability…
Last reviewed: October 10, 2026 DeepSeek OCR usually refers to DeepSeek’s open-weight OCR and document-understanding models, especially DeepSeek-OCR and the newer DeepSeek-OCR-2. The term is also used more loosely for OCR-like image reading through DeepSeek’s hosted Vision API with deepseek-flash.…
Last verified: October 7, 2026 DeepSeek V4 Pro is the Pro route of DeepSeek’s V4 model family. In the current DeepSeek API model table, the API model name is deepseek-v4-pro, and the listed model version is DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813. It supports a…
Last verified: October 10, 2026 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is DeepSeek’s current Flash model route for the API. For new API code, the model name you should normally use is deepseek-flash, not deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp. DeepSeek’s official release note says V4.1…
Last verified: October 4, 2026 DeepSeek V4 is best understood as the DeepSeek model family that introduced DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash in April 2026. But if you are choosing a DeepSeek API model today, “DeepSeek V4” is no longer a single…
Last verified: October 4, 2026 DeepSeek R1 was one of DeepSeek’s most important reasoning model releases. It made DeepSeek widely known outside China, introduced many developers to DeepSeek’s reasoning-style outputs, and remains available as an open-weight model family. But there…