Home / Compare / DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Granite 4.2 8B DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Granite 4.2 8B DeepSeek V4 Flash grades higher overall (72.1 against 30.8). Granite 4.2 8B costs 4% less for the same work.
Model AClaude Fable 5 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude Opus 4.7 Claude Opus 4.8 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Gemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemma 3 12B IT Gemma 3 27B IT Gemma 3 4B IT Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Gemma 4 31B IT GLM 4.6 GLM 4.7 GLM 5.2 GLM 5.3 GLM 5.3 Flash GPT OSS 120B GPT OSS 20B Granite 4.2 8B Hy4 Preview Inkling Small Kimi K2.6 Kimi K3 Ling 3.1 Flash Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Turbo Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct Meta Llama 3.1 70B Instruct Turbo Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Turbo MiMo V2.6 Flash MiMo V2.6 Pro MiniMax M3 Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct 2506 Muse Glimmer 30B NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Phi 4 Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen3 32B Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen3.5 9B Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.6 35B A3B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 27B Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen3.8 Max Seed 2.0 Pro Step 5 Preview DeepSeek V4 Flash
by DeepSeek · #27 of 67 overall
Coming soon · price at launch
Context 1M
Input / 1M $0.090
Output / 1M $0.18 Model BClaude Fable 5 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude Opus 4.7 Claude Opus 4.8 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Gemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemma 3 12B IT Gemma 3 27B IT Gemma 3 4B IT Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Gemma 4 31B IT GLM 4.6 GLM 4.7 GLM 5.2 GLM 5.3 GLM 5.3 Flash GPT OSS 120B GPT OSS 20B Granite 4.2 8B Hy4 Preview Inkling Small Kimi K2.6 Kimi K3 Ling 3.1 Flash Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Turbo Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct Meta Llama 3.1 70B Instruct Turbo Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Turbo MiMo V2.6 Flash MiMo V2.6 Pro MiniMax M3 Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct 2506 Muse Glimmer 30B NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Phi 4 Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen3 32B Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Turbo Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen3.5 9B Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.6 35B A3B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 27B Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen3.8 Max Seed 2.0 Pro Step 5 Preview Granite 4.2 8B
by IBM · #62 of 67 overall
Coming soon · price at launch
Context 128K
Input / 1M $0.060
Output / 1M $0.25 Better overall
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Grade 72.1 vs 30.8
Cheaper
Granite 4.2 8B
4% less, $0.11 vs $0.11 blended
Larger context
DeepSeek V4 Flash
1M vs 128K tokens
SWE-bench Verified
DeepSeek V4 Flash
79% vs 47.7%
Head to head Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.
LMArena Text Elo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026 Granite 4.2 8B Granite 4.2 8B: —
SWE-Bench Pro % of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Aug 25, 2026 · reference DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek V4 Flash: —
Granite 4.2 8B Granite 4.2 8B: —
DeepSeek V4 Flash $25.20 /month
Granite 4.2 8B $22.00 /month
Granite 4.2 8B saves you $3.20 a month at this usage, $38.40 a year.
At a glance Attribute DeepSeek V4 Flash Granite 4.2 8B Made by DeepSeek IBM Availability Coming soon Coming soon Overall grade Excellent · 72.1 Good · 30.8 Overall rank #27 of 67 #62 of 67 Input price $0.090 per 1M $0.060 per 1M Output price $0.18 per 1M $0.25 per 1M Context window 1,048,576 tokens 131,072 tokens Reasoning levels No No Reads images No No Model ID deepseek-v4-flash granite-4.2-8b
Try both with one key Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.
Get your API key # Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY " \
-d '{"model": "deepseek-v4-flash", "messages": [...]}'
# …then swap one word
-d '{"model": "granite-4.2-8b", "messages": [...]}' Questions Is DeepSeek V4 Flash or Granite 4.2 8B better? DeepSeek V4 Flash grades 72.1 against 30.8 for Granite 4.2 8B, from public benchmarks.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash or Granite 4.2 8B? Granite 4.2 8B: $0.060 in and $0.25 out per million tokens, against $0.090 and $0.18 through FullsendAI.
Which has the larger context window? DeepSeek V4 Flash, with 1,048,576 tokens.
Can I use both with one API key? Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.
Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, LiveCodeBench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.
