Comment by cjg007
4 hours ago
I've been using v4-flash without vision for this months — it's my go-to for code tasks. Now with vision, I'm wondering: if this model can do everything the text-only version does (plus see images), why keep the text-only one around?
Is it just cost/latency? Or is there something text-only does better?
Yes, it adds vision to the already capable text-only LLM according to DS:
> This experimental multimodal model matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text capabilities—including agents, reasoning, and world knowledge.
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260821/