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looorg [soylentnews.org] writes:

Every token counts. Price per AI model.

Deepseek V4-Flash about 105 times cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.

DeepSeek's V4-Flash charges $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, according to research firm Artificial Analysis. A ​token is a unit of data used to measure AI usage.

San Francisco-based Artificial Analysis estimated V4-Flash's average cost at 3 cents per test, compared with 86 cents for Kimi K3 from Chinese rival Moonshot AI, $1.86 for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and $3.15 for Claude Fable 5.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/deepseeks-new-ai-model-is-by-far-cheapest-well-known-models-run-research-firm-2026-08-03/ [reuters.com]
https://artificialanalysis.ai/ [artificialanalysis.ai]

So who to turn to to maximize your daily slop, or helping AI friend.

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