Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp from DeepSeek and Grok 4.5 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Grok 4.5DeepSeek’s officially released new multimodal visual-understanding model, DeepSeek‑V4‑Flash‑Vision‑Exp, is experimental in nature and supports multimodal inputs. In pure-text capabilities (agents, reasoning, world knowledge, etc.), DeepSeek‑V4‑Flash‑Vision‑Exp is on par with the official DeepSeek‑V4‑Flash release.
Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.284/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.5: 1523; DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 1483 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 1.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp accepts 1,000,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp at 81.2 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 26.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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