> For comparison, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, a 284B model, costs around $0.1/Mtok for output from the cheapest providers on OpenRouter. I am not sure how much of t

> For comparison, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, a 284B model, costs around $0.1/Mtok for output from the cheapest providers on OpenRouter. I am not sure how much of this difference comes from the efficiency of running models at scale, pricing strategy, or popularity. Due in large part to DeepSeek's MoE architecture. Generating 1 token through DS4's 13B active params requires roughly half the FLOPs to generate a token through the dense Qwen 27B.