# DeepSeek — DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Release 2026/08/21

- Company: DeepSeek (deepseek.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-21
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260821
- Record: https://forck.live/items/9735-deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp-release-2026-08-21
- Subject: DeepSeek models
- Models affected: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Opus-4.8
- Pricing: at V4-Flash pricing

DeepSeek released the experimental multimodal model DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on its API platform. The model matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text capabilities and makes a major leap on multimodal agent benchmarks, approaching Opus-4.8 performance. It supports mixed text and image input via base64, URLs, or the new Files API.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260821:

> DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is now live on the DeepSeek API Platform!

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