Side-by-side comparison of Command R+ (Cohere · Canada) and DeepSeek-V4-Flash (DeepSeek · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Command R+ is rated conditional; DeepSeek-V4-Flash is conditional. They part ways on licence: Command R+ is "CC-BY-NC 4.0", DeepSeek-V4-Flash is "MIT".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Enterprise-focused 104B model, strong at RAG and multilingual tool use. Weights are released under CC-BY-NC 4.0 — non-commercial only. Commercial deployment goes through Cohere's API (see Cohere API entry). | Conditional DeepSeek-V4-Flash is the smaller-active sibling of V4-Pro under the same MIT terms — permissive on the weights, but the China-based vendor and undocumented training corpus mean any EU deployment still needs a self-hosted topology and a deployer-side GPAI documentation file under AI Act Article 53. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | CC-BY-NC 4.0 | MIT |
| Commercial use | API only | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Partial | Categories only |
| Origin | Canada | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | 47/100 |
| Speed | — | 79 tok/s |
| Blended price | $6.00/M | $0.17/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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