Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
DeepSeek’s V4-Flash was singled out as dramatically cheaper to run on Artificial Analysis benchmark tests.
Artificial Analysis put V4-Flash’s average cost at $0.03 per test. The comparison cited $0.86 for Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, $1.86 for OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, and $3.15 for Claude Fable 5. The note frames the model as the lowest-cost major option in that benchmark set. Techmeme's note
Artificial Analysis put V4-Flash’s average cost at $0.03 per test. The comparison cited $0.86 for Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, $1.86 for OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, and $3.15 for Claude Fable 5. The note frames the model as the lowest-cost major option in that benchmark set. Techmeme's note
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