Head-to-head comparison
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (DeepSeek) and Dots3-Note Preview (Dots Studio) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 22 August 2026
As of 22 August 2026, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#145 vs #146); Dots3-Note Preview is cheaper per output token (Free/1M vs $0.66/1M); and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp offers the longer context window (1M vs 512K tokens).
Evidence: global corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated · global corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Neither model has a published result on a public benchmark board ModelCap tracks yet.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 22 August 2026: #145 against #146. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
Dots3-Note Preview is cheaper on output tokens: Free/1M against $0.66/1M. Input tokens are $0.22/1M for DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Free/1M for Dots3-Note Preview. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has the larger context window: 1M tokens against 512K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: API only. Dots3-Note Preview: API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and 1 for Dots3-Note Preview, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 22 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.