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Cactus Needle 2 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 49 235 | |
| Family | Needle | DeepSeek V4 Flash |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Aug 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| Context Window | 256 tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | Free | $0.14/M tokens |
| Output Price | Free | $0.28/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Apache 2.0 model artifact; runtime cost depends on local hardware, not token API pricing. | DeepSeek API pricing lists $0.0028 cache-hit input, $0.14 cache-miss input, and $0.28 output per 1M tokens for deepseek-v4-flash; peak pricing may change after a future official announcement. |
| Capabilities | tool-usestructured-outputjson-schemadevice-controledge-inferenceoffline | reasoningcodingtool-usestructured-outputlong-contextresponses-api |
| Max Output | 256 tokens | 393K tokens |
| API Identifier | Cactus-Compute/needle2 | deepseek-v4-flash |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Mobile Actions Ordered Strict Exact Match | 63.7cactus-compute | — |
| BFCL v4 Single-Turn Overall | 42.6cactus-compute | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 | — | 50artificial-analysis |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 | — | 52artificial-analysis |
| View Cactus Needle 2 | View DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cactus Needle 2Cheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | $0.14 | $0.14 | $0.28 | +0% |
Cactus Compute
Cactus Needle 2
Cactus Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter, 14 MB agentic model for tiny devices. It focuses on tool calling, device control, schema-constrained JSON, and structured extraction; Cactus reports 28 MB session RAM, 800+ tok/s prefill, and 500+ tok/s decode on Raspberry Pi 5.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is an open-weight, cost-efficient reasoning model for long-context coding, agent tasks, and API workflows through DeepSeek.
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