# DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest

Provider: deepseek  
Category: llm  
Model ID: `~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest`

This model always redirects to the latest model in the DeepSeek Flash family.

## Specs

- Context length: 1048576 tokens
- Max output: 943718 tokens
- Modalities: text, image
- Released: 2026-09-14

## Pricing

- Input: $0.05 per million tokens
- Output: $0.60 per million tokens

## Providers

- **deepseek** — ctx 1048576, input $0.04/M, output $0.89/M

## Verdict

DeepSeek Flash Latest delivers exceptional value for high-volume text generation at $0.60/Mtok output — roughly 10x cheaper than GPT-4o while maintaining competitive quality on reasoning and coding tasks. The massive 1M token context window handles entire codebases or long documents without chunking. Trade-off: vision capabilities lag behind frontier models, and lack of public benchmarks means you're relying on internal testing. Best for teams prioritizing cost efficiency on text-heavy workloads where you can validate output quality yourself.

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Last verified: 2026-10-19T02:30:34.239Z  
Canonical URL: https://switchy.build/directory/models/deepseek-flash-latest