DeepSeek · released
DeepSeek V4
The price floor everyone else is measured against.
Overview
MIT licensed, self-hostable, and priced low enough that it changes what is economically possible. The Flash variant runs at a fraction of a cent per million tokens, which is the number that makes high-volume AI features viable at all.
Solthar DNA rating, out of 5
- reasoning: 4.5
- coding: 4.5
- writing: 3.5
- vision: 3
- speed: 4.5
- value: 5
- context: 5
- tools: 4
Verdict
The volume workhorse. Send it everything that does not need a frontier model.