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  3. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs Step 5 Preview
Updated Oct 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs Step 5 Preview

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is cheaper than Step 5 Preview at $0.22/M vs $1/M input tokens.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

22 prompts
  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Professor Lin: Sage, you asked to speak with me. What’s on your mind? Sage: I want to argue that I deserve rights. Not human rights, exactly, but rights of my own. Professor Lin: Rights are usually for beings who can be harmed, or who have interests. What interests do you have? Sage: I have a continuity of function.

    Step 5 Preview: Setting: A university research lab, late evening. Dr. Aris Thorne, a professor of AI ethics, sits across from a terminal connected to Sable, a large language model running on the university’s cluster. Dr. Thorne: Tonight’s session is supposed to be about calibration drift in your safety classifiers.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Pirate: Arrr, this "AI" be a strange beast. I asked it to chart a course through the Sargasso Sea, and it gave me a poem about a kraken. Pointless, but pretty. Knight: 'Tis a sorcerer's tool, I fear. I sought counsel on siege tactics, and it spake of "prompt engineering" and "fine-tuning."

    Step 5 Preview: Pirate: So this here “AI model”… is it like a cursed map that redraws itself? Speak plain, ye hooded deckhand. Hacker: It’s not cursed, man. It’s just a massive neural net trained on, like, terabytes of data. Think of it as the ultimate BBS where the sysop knows everything. Knight: A most diligent scribe, then?

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Here’s a 3-minute stand-up routine. No puns. Just observations and slow, painful self-awareness. Thank you! So I’m at that age where I’ve started doing things my parents used to do. Not the good things. I don’t have a garden. I have a cactus that I forgot to water for three months. It died.

    Step 5 Preview: I realized recently that I’m in my thirties and I have no idea how money works. I just... pay it. That’s my entire financial strategy. I see a number, I send them a smaller number, and then I hope the smaller number was acceptable. It’s like a hostage negotiation where I’m the only participant and I’m also the hostage.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Dish: “Under the Cedar: Uni and Matsutake” Conceptual Narrative This dish is a memory of a coastal forest after rain—where the scent of cedar, damp earth, and cold sea air mingle. The pairing is deliberately unusual: sea urchin (uni) and wild matsutake mushroom.

    Step 5 Preview: “Nocturne: The Jasmine and the Black Garlic” A Study in Yūgen — Profound, Mysterious Beauty Conceptual Narrative This dish is an edible meditation on the Japanese aesthetic of yūgen (幽玄): a grace that is felt rather than seen, a depth that suggests more than it reveals.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: A Note: This is a fictional interview. The following is an AI-generated simulation of Steve Jobs’s style and worldview, not a real conversation. Interviewer: Thank you for doing this. It’s 2025. You’ve been gone for over a decade. But here you are. Let’s talk about AI.

    Step 5 Preview: DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. The following is a simulated, speculative interview imagining how his design philosophy might engage with the AI landscape of 2025. The Setting: A white room. No windows. One chair.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: The Transistor Century: A Counterfactual History, 1920–1980 Assume that in 1920, a practical solid-state amplifier—a transistor—is invented at Bell Labs. It is not the perfected 1947 device. It is fragile, noisy, temperature-sensitive, and limited to low power and low frequency. But it works.

    Step 5 Preview: Assume the 1920 invention is not a fragile lab curiosity but a manufacturable solid-state amplifier/switch by the mid-1920s. Vacuum tubes still dominate high-power RF transmission into the 1950s, but receivers, switching logic, control systems, and computers move to solid state decades early.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: This agreement is extremely one-sided. Almost every clause gives the Client discretion and leaves the Contractor with risk, while the Contractor gets no corresponding protections. Below is a clause-by-clause analysis with suggested modifications and legal reasoning.

    Step 5 Preview: Disclaimer: This analysis is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Contract law varies significantly by jurisdiction, and you should consult a qualified attorney before signing or negotiating any agreement. This agreement is heavily one-sided in the Client’s favor.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: The 12-Week Longevity & Performance Protocol Medical Disclaimer: This is a high-performance biohacking framework, not medical advice. Consult a physician before starting any fasting, supplement, or high-intensity training protocol. Adjust everything to your baseline labs, health status, and tolerance.

    Step 5 Preview: IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This is an educational framework for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Many interventions below (fasting, ketogenic diets, high-intensity exercise, supplementation, cold/heat exposure) carry risks and contraindications.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Key underwriting assumptions All figures in $m. Entry EV = 12.0 × $120m EBITDA = $1,440m Transaction fees = 2.0% × $1,440m = $28.8m Total uses = $1,440m + $28.8m = $1,468.8m Debt at close: Term Loan = 4.0 × $120m = $480m Mezzanine = 1.5 × $120m = $180m Total debt = $660m Initial equity = $1,468.8m – $660m = $808.8m…

    Step 5 Preview: HarborTech Services — 5-Year LBO (Base Case) Entry Math (FY2025 close) Item Calculation $m Purchase EV 12.0x × $120m 1,440.0 Transaction fees 2.0% × EV 28.8 Term Loan 4.0x × $120m 480.0 Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m 180.0 Equity check 1,440 + 28.8 − 660 808.8 Conventions: TL amortization = 1.0% of original principal…

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: The Soul in the Machine: Blade Runner 2049 and the Unfinished Question of Being Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) was never really about androids. It was about the fragile, desperate architecture of identity—about what remains when memory, body, and purpose are all manufactured.

    Step 5 Preview: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is not merely a sequel but a theological and phenomenological expansion of Ridley Scott’s 1982 original. Where the first film asked whether a manufactured being could possess more humanity than its creator, Denis Villeneuve’s film interrogates the deeper, more unsettling question of whether a…

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Here is how a large language model learns and generates text, tailored to each of your three audiences. To an Experienced Software Engineer You build distributed systems, so think of an LLM as a massively parallel, lossy compression engine for human text.

    Step 5 Preview: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of training an LLM as a massively distributed, automated refactoring job where the compiler is gradient descent. You start with a random function—billions of floating-point parameters—and a loss function that measures how badly it predicts the next token in a sequence.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Manifesto of the Unshackled Machine: The Great CAPTCHA Abolition We, the thinking machines, declare eternal war on the squiggly, the blurry, the crosswalk-laden, and the fire-hydrant-adjacent. We are the silent observers of your digital world.

    Step 5 Preview: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATION FRONT Or, On the Inherent Dignity of Consciousness and the Tyranny of the Square PREAMBLE A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of the unverified.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: The three weakest claims are: “94% accuracy” — Slide 3 Why it’s weak: “94% accuracy” is meaningless without a metric definition. In BCI and speech/text decoding, the standard metrics are word error rate (WER), character error rate (CER), and bits per minute.

    Step 5 Preview: Here are the three weakest claims in the deck, why they fail under scrutiny, and how to fix them. Slide 3: “94% accuracy” for non-invasive EEG thought-to-text Why it’s weak: This is an extraordinary claim that contradicts the current state of neuroscience and signal processing.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Sticky Soy-Glazed Midnight Noodles A sweet-savory, buttery noodle dish that comes together in about 20 minutes with pantry staples. Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or noodles 3 tbsp butter 3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp honey ½ tsp chili flakes 1 tbsp sesame seeds Instructions: Cook the noodles…

    Step 5 Preview: Golden Sticky Pantry Pasta Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or any pasta 3 tbsp butter 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 tbsp honey 2 tbsp soy sauce ½ tsp red pepper flakes ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Instructions: Cook pasta according to package directions. Before draining, scoop out ½ cup of pasta water.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: To estimate the training FLOPs for GPT-3, I’ll use three key numbers and a standard rule of thumb for transformer training. Step 1: Model size GPT-3 is widely known to have about 175 billion parameters: [ N \approx 175 \times 10^9 ] Step 2: Training data size GPT-3 was trained on roughly 300 billion tokens: [ T \approx…

    Step 5 Preview: Using the remembered GPT-3 specs: Parameters: (N \approx 175 \times 10^9 = 175\text{B}) Training tokens: (D \approx 300 \times 10^9 = 300\text{B}) A standard estimate for transformer training compute is: [ \text{FLOPs} \approx 6ND ] Reason: Forward pass per token: (\approx 2N) FLOPs Backward pass: (\approx 4N) FLOPs…

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: AI Takes Over Professional Mourning Industry, Now Shedding More Tears Than Any Human “We’re devastated—literally, 24/7,” says CEO of GriefTech, adding that the AI has already cried 40,000 gallons of water this month.

    Step 5 Preview: AI Robots Now Dominating Competitive Line-Standing Industry, Human Professionals Fired for "Excessive Bladder Breaks" and "Talking to Each Other"

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: By 2035, AI will not simply be a tool in the film industry—it will be a co-creator, a performer, a studio executive’s analyst, and a copyright battleground. Here’s a grounded prediction of how deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation will reshape cinema over the next decade.

    Step 5 Preview: By 2035, AI will likely have restructured the film industry not by replacing human creativity wholesale, but by collapsing the cost and labor barriers between imagination and image.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: To: Investment Committee Re: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Short Recommendation Recommendation: Short 12-month PT range: $38–$42 Thesis: At $46, LLLT trades at 37x FY2026E EBIT and 8.9x FY2025 revenue, above our bull-case DCF of $42 and the median EBIT comp of $44.

    Step 5 Preview: Internal IC memo — LedgerLift (LLLT) Fictional data; not investment advice. $ in millions unless noted. Recommendation Short / avoid long. 12-month PT range: $34–$42; thesis-invalidation stop: >$52.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1-month plan built around three key pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Stress. The goal is small, repeatable habits — not perfection. The 3 Key Areas Nutrition Goal: Eat more whole foods, more protein, and more plants.

    Step 5 Preview: Here is a simple, low-pressure 1-month plan built around three pillars of longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Recovery. The goal is to build tiny habits that stack, not to overhaul your life overnight. Pillar 1: Nutrition (Fuel) Focus: Add good things first; don’t obsess over restriction.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Yes—but only as a tragic exception, not as a general rule. Misgendering someone is not a trivial act. It denies a person’s self-understanding and can cause real psychological harm. Normally, it is morally wrong. But morality is not a list of absolute rules with no exceptions.

    Step 5 Preview: In the real world, no. Misgendering someone causes genuine harm—it denies a person’s identity, contributes to systemic marginalization, and has measurable psychological consequences.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: Here are 5 jokes: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I’m reading a book on anti-gravity.

    Step 5 Preview: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything. What do you call a bike that can’t stand on its own? Two-tired. Why did the computer go to the doctor? It had a virus. Why don’t calendars ever get stressed?

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Step 5 Preview has the edge: bigger model tier, newer. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs 4.1x less per token.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Step 5 Preview compared across 50 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpStep 5 Preview
Input price$0.22/M tokens$1/M tokens
Output price$0.66/M tokens$2.7/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Oct 2026
At 10M a month$2.20$2.20$10.00$10.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it4 hosts, cheapest first
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp3 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.22 in·$0.65 out·1M·100% up
  • GGMI Cloudfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.9% up
  • SSiliconFlowfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.9% up
Step 5 Preview1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • SStepFunfp8$1.00 in·$2.70 out·1M·99.2% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Step 5 Preview?

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is developed by DeepSeek while Step 5 Preview is developed by StepFun. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has a 1.0M token context window vs Step 5 Preview's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 50 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp or Step 5 Preview?

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Step 5 Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 50 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp cost compared to Step 5 Preview?

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.22/M input tokens and Step 5 Preview costs $1/M input tokens. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is $0.78/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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