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Luna is twice the price of Deepseek V4 Flash 0731, and less capable :/
by johnnyApplePRNG 2mo ago
Luna is twice the price of Deepseek V4 Flash 0731, and less capable :/
- copperx 2mo agoDidn't DeepSeek go up 2x?
- alecsm 2mo agoUp to 4x but in 2 days.
- johnnyApplePRNG 2mo agoThe price on DeepInfra and most providers on OpenRouter has not changed... if anything, it's gotten cheaper. All of this DeepSeek price increase stuff is related to their specific API, not the entire market.
- farlight 2mo agoThey were significantly more expensive for coding compared to DeepSeek's offering because of much higher cost of cache reads and lower cache hit rate. Now, after the price jump, the effective cost of deepseek.com API vs 3-rd party providers is about the same.
- johnnyApplePRNG 2mo agoDeepSeek's API was never "cheap". They were stealing your code for that extremely cheap cached token price. That was never the real price. Every Chinese LLM API provider is the same to the best of my knowledge. "CHEAP API" (but pssst we train on every single input aka your code and ideas are ours forever)
- hirako2000 2mo agoThere is no more, no less, guarantee that U.S providers don't do exactly that. In fact openAi is going to court. If some models are cheaper it's simply because they cost far less to develop. And/or run.
- 127 2mo agoAnd you're claiming Anthropic and OpenAI are not doing the same thing?
- stavros 2mo agoLooks like it's changed now, OpenRouter shows providers having the updated DS4 pricing.
- wyre 2mo agoHow is it less capable? I get being cheaper, but I’m pretty sure Luna is the stronger model?
- Azantys 2mo agoBenchmarks are basically tied https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/deepseek-v4-flash-vs-gpt-5-6-luna https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/comparisons/deepseek-v4...
- declanjackson 2mo agoWith max reasoning, Luna is actually less than half the actual cost to run compared to DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 with updated prices (based on Artificial Analysis Cost per Task)
- dools 2mo agoNo way is it less capable. When deepseek can't get its shit together, I give Luna a go, then Terra, then Sol. Most of the time Luna figures it out where Deepseek was failing. I rarely have to go to Sol levels.