Quick Facts
| Developer | DeepSeek |
| License | MIT (per public listing -- verify against official model card before commercial use) |
| Typical Sizes | 284B total / 13B activated (MoE) -- cloud tag only, deepseek-v4-flash:cloud. No local weight tag currently listed on Ollama. |
| Context | 1M tokens, three reasoning modes, native tool support |
| Modality | Text only -- no vision/image input on this Ollama release |
| Best For | Long-context analysis, cost-conscious coding help, tool-calling prototypes, agent pilots |
| Recommended Deployment | Terminal.Glass Cloud tier, medium usage (only access path today) |
Why Choose This Model
V4 Flash is the efficiency-tuned member of the DeepSeek V4 preview line -- a MoE design that activates only a fraction of its total parameters per token, aimed at bringing V4-style reasoning to workloads where the flagship V4 Pro is more capability and cost than necessary. It carries the same 1M-token context and native tool support as the rest of the family, making it a reasonable default for long-document work, coding assistance, and agent experimentation when you want lower per-request cost than the top-tier model. As with V3.2, DeepSeek has not published a local weight tag for this model on Ollama, so cloud is currently the only supported access path.
Terminal.Glass Deployment
Your interface, chat history, user accounts, and RAG index stay on your Terminal.Glass host.
Each request to deepseek-v4-flash:cloud
-- including prompt text, code excerpts, retrieved passages, and tool context -- is sent to Ollama
Cloud for inference and streamed back. This tag is billed at Ollama's medium usage tier: generally
lower per-request cost than V4 Pro, though 1M-token contexts and max-thinking prompts can still add
up. No local GPU is required, and none is currently available as an alternative for this specific
version.
Recommended Uses
- Long-context document and codebase analysis
- Cost-conscious coding help and architecture review
- Tool-calling prototypes and agent pilots
- Internal documentation Q&A and technical support drafting on non-sensitive material
Not recommended for regulated data, credentials, unpublished source code, or client-confidential material -- all request content leaves your network for this tag. Not suitable for vision or image-based tasks; this release is text-only. For the hardest reasoning or coding problems, consider DeepSeek V4 Pro Cloud instead; for simpler tasks that don't need 1M context, an older cloud tag such as DeepSeek V3.2 may be cheaper.
Hardware Guidance
The Terminal.Glass host needs to run Open WebUI, the Ollama client, and your document index -- a small VM or mini-PC is sufficient, since all inference happens on Ollama Cloud. There is currently no local weight release for V4 Flash, so this isn't a choice between local and cloud hardware sizing -- cloud is the only supported path until DeepSeek publishes local weights. Watch the official Ollama listing for changes.
Honest Guidance
- Regulated or confidential data: no local V4 Flash tag exists yet -- use a different model with a local release, or wait for one, if data must stay on owned hardware.
- Hardest reasoning or coding tasks: DeepSeek V4 Pro Cloud may deliver better results when capability matters more than efficiency.
- Heavy sustained usage: recurring medium-tier billing can still exceed owned inference hardware costs over time, once a local option exists.
- Routine, low-complexity tasks: an older, cheaper cloud tag (e.g. DeepSeek V3.2) may be sufficient when 1M context isn't needed.
- Vision or multimodal needs: this release is text-only; choose a different model family.
- Version pinning or audit reproducibility: cloud tags can change server-side; a pinned local checkpoint offers more control once available.
Learn More
Full technical reference and licensing detail for the DeepSeek family are documented on NoCloudGPT. Confirm current tags and availability at ollama.com/library/deepseek-v4-flash.