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- Currently burning money quickly on official deepseek api. They are also increasing pricing starting today. V4 Flash 0731 still feels like the most outstanding model of the past few months and probably to come.by _6wbq
- Tested both DS v4 pro 0813 and Grok 4.6 (all from openrouter) on Codex cli. Worked on a same new feature development on my project.
Deepseek 4 pro: Worked for 12m 02s - cost $0.12 - has bug.
Grok 4.6: Worked for 3m 18s - cost $ 1.41 - no bug.
- Have been letting it spin pretty hard (~$12.50 for 2B, 50% cache hits) on my traffic simulator/distributed physics engine all day, it's found some pretty significant gains without introducing any new problems.
I'm happy
- What I care about is whether the model is capable of the tasks I give it at the lowest cost. Right now I'm using Kimi-K3/GLM-5.2/Minimax. Sonnet is great but I burn through the tokens too fast. Opus 5 set to max is amazing and more intelligent than all of us. .998 of the time I don't need that kind of intelligence. I just need the job done.by book_mike
- I've been using the last Deepseek Flash update for a week and I'm amazed. It was a capable model for easy tasks but now it looks like it can do some heavy development for peanuts.
I can't wait to try this new one.
by alecsm - Just tested through openrouter.. gave exactly same task.. the task was to scan existing repo, and generate a single docker-compose file to deploy behind a caddy server, where certain port ranges are already used, the service demands widlcard certificates to be provisioned from outside, and postgre needs to be built-in one...
Tested this model, and gpt-5.6-terra-high.
Results: this one had few issues. terra: none.
These results are consistent with my past observations with the latest flash version as well. What benchmarks say, vs what I've been observing are different.
They are good till the project is simple... not anymore.
by freakynit - Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 was such a massive jump in capability for such a small model (and price), that I'm a bit disappointed by this release.
I keep my agents on tight leashes, using them very interactively for bouncing off ideas, architecture, and then writing code (especially prototyping) and Flash has been crushing everything I ever needed it to do.
Maybe my ambitions are too tame compared to people needing Fable / Sol grade models, but I'm probably staying on Flash and not moving on to Pro for the foreseeable future.
by simjnd - Nice bicycle chain, the little basket with a fish didn't show up in the right place: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht...by simonw