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Deepseek v4 Pro on US hosting is like 1.5x cheaper and 5x cheaper on input/output compared to Sonnet, and that's not even a fair comparison because Deepseek is
by slopinthebag 5mo ago
Deepseek v4 Pro on US hosting is like 1.5x cheaper and 5x cheaper on input/output compared to Sonnet, and that's not even a fair comparison because Deepseek is much stronger than Sonnet. It's more reasonable to compare with Opus 4.5, which is much more expensive.
- pants2 5mo agoSure but you can also look at Grok 4.3, which is smarter and faster than DeepSeek at the same price point.
- slopinthebag 5mo agoI doubt that is the case
- pants2 5mo agoGrok 4.3 is smarter, cheaper, and faster than DS4 according to Artificial Analysis and OpenRouter: DeepSeek v4 Pro Intelligence: 52 Cost to run AA benchmark on Fireworks: 187M tokens @ $0.79/M blended cost = $147.73 Speed: 43 tok/s Grok 4.3 Intelligence: 53 Cost: 88M tokens @ 0.64 blended = $56.32 Speed: 108 tok/s