I am thrilled with DeepSeek V4 Flash via API as it's very good and very cheap. But for everyday advanced tasks and coding even DS V4 Pro is nowhere near GPT 5.5

I am thrilled with DeepSeek V4 Flash via API as it's very good and very cheap. But for everyday advanced tasks and coding even DS V4 Pro is nowhere near GPT 5.5 nor Claude Opus 4.7 (and never mind 4.8). I think V4 is a great release but the frontier is moving fast, too.