DeepSeek’s ‘kill line’: why a model 85 times cheaper is resetting the default
DeepSeek V4 Flash is redrawing how models are judged. On OpenCode, a single AI coding tool, the model burned 8 trillion tokens in one day, more than the entire OpenRouter platform’s daily average of about 6.6 trillion across 400-plus models. The reason is price. DeepSeek charges about 2 yuan per million output tokens; Anthropic’s Claude … Read more