A cheaper model in the same family now outscores the flagship preview on every agentic task DeepSeek chose to publish. It is the official public beta build of DeepSeek’s V4-Flash API, released 31 July 2026. Is DeepSeek V4-Flash better than Claude Opus 4.8? How much does DeepSeek V4-Flash cost? Are the DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 weights open source?