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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs ScaleDown: Summarize

On input price, ScaleDown: Summarize is ~5.4× cheaper. Verified 2026-10-21.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp $0.216/$0.647vsScaleDown: Summarize $0.040/Free

Verdict

On blended price (3:1 input:output), ScaleDown: Summarize is ~10.8× cheaper ($0.040/Free vs $0.216/$0.647 per 1M tokens).

Pricing

Per-million-token list prices, verified 2026-10-21. Green marks the better value.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpScaleDown: Summarize
Input / 1M$0.216$0.040
Output / 1M$0.647Free
Cache read / 1M$0.0069—
Blended (3:1)$0.323/1M$0.030/1M
Estimated monthly costDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpScaleDown: Summarize
Chatbot10,000 reqs · 800/400 tok$4.31$0.32
Coding agent5,000 reqs · 8000/2000 tok$15.09$1.60
RAG pipeline30,000 reqs · 4000/500 tok$35.57$4.80

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Specifications & capabilities

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpScaleDown: Summarize
Context window1.0M1M
Max output262K4K
Vision input✓✓
Tool calling✓–
Reasoning✓–

Provider

Infrastructure metrics for the organizations behind these models.

MetricDeepSeekscaledown
Listed endpoints6—
Reliability99.6%—
Avg latency480 ms—
Pricing tiersstandard, free—

Full details: DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp pricing · ScaleDown: Summarize pricing