DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) for your use-case.
Fastest
Crusoe
Fireworks
Nebius
DeepSeek
NovitaOutput speed
Total 15 providers
Lowest Latency
CrusoeFireworksNebiusDeepSeekNovitaTime to first answer token
Total 15 providers
Lowest Price
Bitdeer AI
DeepInfra
DigitalOcean
Baseten
SiliconFlowBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 15 providers
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) is available through 15 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Crusoe (298.0 t/s), Fireworks (255.3 t/s), and Nebius (239.0 t/s). Speed varies significantly across providers, with a 705% difference between the fastest and slowest.
- For latency, Crusoe (7.71s), Fireworks (8.44s), and Nebius (10.46s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Bitdeer AI (0.02), DeepInfra (0.05), and DigitalOcean (0.06) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens. Prices vary up to 10.4x across providers.
- Crusoe offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, Bitdeer AI provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort)
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
 CoreWeave | 262k | Open | $0.38 | 100 | 1.72 | 26.67 | 19.96 | ||
 Wafer | 1M | Open | $0.90 | 136 | 0.79 | 19.23 | 14.76 | ||
| Nebius | 1.05M | Open | $0.65 | 227 | 2.16 | 13.17 | 8.81 | ||
| DeepSeek | 1M | Open | $0.22 | 210 | 0.98 | 12.88 | 9.52 | ||
| Bitdeer AI | 1M | Open | $0.06 | 138 | 1.54 | 19.66 | 14.50 | ||
 Parasail | 1.05M | Open | $0.41 | 66 | 1.59 | 39.53 | 30.35 | ||
| Fireworks | 1.05M | Open | $0.09 | 254 | 0.60 | 10.44 | 7.87 | ||
| SiliconFlow | 1.05M | Open | $0.51 | 86 | 2.62 | 31.61 | 23.20 | ||
| Baseten | 1.05M | Open | $0.44 | 112 | 4.94 | 27.19 | 17.80 | ||
| Crusoe | 1.05M | Open | $0.19 | 294 | 1.04 | 9.55 | 6.81 | ||
 GMI | 1.05M | Open | $0.58 | 113 | 2.87 | 25.03 | 17.73 | ||
| Novita | 1.05M | Open | $0.26 | 127 | 1.83 | 21.52 | 15.75 | ||
| DeepInfra | 1M | Open | $0.12 | 34 | 1.05 | 74.40 | 58.68 | ||
| DigitalOcean | 1.05M | Open | $0.33 | 31 | 1.14 | 81.88 | 64.59 | ||
 Makora | 1M | Open | $0.42 | 54 | 1.33 | 47.36 | 36.82 | ||
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) providers
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) is available through 15 API providers: CoreWeave, Wafer (FAST), Nebius, DeepSeek, Bitdeer AI, Parasail, Fireworks, SiliconFlow, Baseten, Crusoe, GMI, Novita, DeepInfra, DigitalOcean, and Makora. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) is currently available through 15 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The most affordable providers for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) by blended price are Bitdeer AI ($0.02 per 1M tokens), DeepInfra ($0.05 per 1M tokens), and DigitalOcean ($0.06 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) are Bitdeer AI ($0.04 per 1M input tokens), DeepInfra ($0.08 per 1M input tokens), and DigitalOcean ($0.08 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) are Bitdeer AI ($0.08 per 1M output tokens), DeepInfra ($0.18 per 1M output tokens), and Makora ($0.20 per 1M output tokens).
Prices for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) vary up to 10.4x across providers. The most affordable is Bitdeer AI at $0.02 per 1M tokens, while Novita charges $0.24 per 1M tokens.
Output speed for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) varies significantly across providers. Crusoe is the fastest at 298.0 t/s, which is 8.1x faster than DigitalOcean at 37.0 t/s.
All 15 providers of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) support JSON mode for structured output.
All 15 providers of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) support function calling (tool use).
For DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort), Crusoe offers the best performance with highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, Bitdeer AI provides the most competitive pricing.
When choosing a provider for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort), consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort)'s intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview