Decision snapshot
Where this family fits
- Suitable for
- Cost-sensitive API workloads, coding and agent experiments, and teams willing to evaluate provider, deployment, and data-handling tradeoffs.
- Access
- Hosted API · Open weights
- Capabilities
- General & Reasoning · Coding · Agents & Tool Use
- Weights
- DeepSeek has published earlier open-weight releases. The current V4 API documentation does not itself establish open weights for V4.
Decision boundary
The current API IDs and earlier downloadable releases are separate facts. Do not assume that a new hosted V4 endpoint has published weights because older DeepSeek versions did.
Selected current releases
Exact names and model IDs
This is a maintained selection from official sources, not a complete catalog. Provider status labels are preserved instead of converted into a Richbay score.
| Release | Provider status | Access and modality | Context | Weights / license |
|---|---|---|---|---|
DeepSeek V4 Pro ↗deepseek-v4-pro | GA | DeepSeek APIText → text | 1M tokens | Hosted API · V4 weights not established by source |
DeepSeek V4 Flash ↗deepseek-v4-flash | Public beta | DeepSeek APIText → text | 1M tokens | Hosted API · V4 weights not established by source |