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DeepSeek-V4

DeepSeek · DeepSeek line · flagship · open weights

Released April 24, 2026Replaced by DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813

DeepSeek-V4 was released by DeepSeek on April 24, 2026, as an open-weights flagship model in the DeepSeek line.

What changed

DeepSeek's new open flagship: about 8 times more text in memory than V3.2, while using a fraction of the computing power — and it solves about 8 in 10 real-world coding tasks.

Compared with DeepSeek-V3.2 · the version it replaces

Holds about 8 times more text in memory at once

Context window — how much text the model can read at one time

1M tokens

▲ up from 128K · about 8 times more

Needs about a quarter of V3.2's computing power at full memory

Compute at 1M context — the processing work needed to run it

27% of V3.2

▲ vs V3.2 · same 1M context

Listed at $1.74 per million input tokens at launch, then cut by 75% a day later

Price per 1M tokens — what developers pay for V4-Pro, input / output

$1.74 / $3.48

✦ launch list price · 75% off from Apr 25, made permanent in May at $0.435 / $0.87

Sources: DeepSeek · Hugging Face · Engadget

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek · flagship line · open weights

Latest: DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · Aug 13, 2026

AnnouncedDeepSeek-V4.1-Pro · announced Sep 10, 2026, 44 days ago

“all deepseek-v4-pro requests will route to V4.1-Flash at V4.1-Flash rates. This will continue until V4.1-Pro launches.” — DeepSeek, Sep 10, 2026 · DeepSeek API docs

The general-availability release of V4-Pro scores 87.9% on Terminal Bench 2.1, up from 72.1% for the April preview in DeepSeek's tests, and keeps the MIT license.

What changed in DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 →
Days since last release
72
days
Usual gap
63
days
Recent gaps
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · Aug 2026
111
DeepSeek-V4 · Apr 2026
144
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale · Dec 2025
63
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp · Sep 2025
7

Every DeepSeek release

Newest first. See the full line with every card →

  1. Aug 13, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
  2. Apr 24, 2026DeepSeek-V4 · this page
  3. Dec 1, 2025DeepSeek-V3.2
  4. Dec 1, 2025DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
  5. Sep 29, 2025DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
  6. Sep 22, 2025DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
  7. Aug 19, 2025DeepSeek-V3.1
  8. May 28, 2025DeepSeek-R1-0528
  9. Mar 24, 2025DeepSeek-V3-0324
  10. Jan 20, 2025DeepSeek-R1
  11. Dec 26, 2024DeepSeek-V3
  12. Dec 10, 2024DeepSeek-V2.5-1210
  13. Nov 20, 2024DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview
  14. Sep 5, 2024DeepSeek-V2.5
  15. Jun 28, 2024DeepSeek-V2-0628
  16. May 6, 2024DeepSeek-V2
  17. Nov 29, 2023DeepSeek LLM 67B