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A brass balance scale on a dark background where a single tiny glowing blue microchip outweighs a towering stack of gold coins, illustrating DeepSeek V4-Flash's cost advantage over rival AI models.

DeepSeek's New Model Runs a Full Benchmark for 3 Cents. Claude Costs $3.15 for the Same Work.

Independent firm Artificial Analysis says DeepSeek's V4-Flash is by far the cheapest well-known AI model to actually run — about $0.03 per test battery versus $0.86 for Kimi K3, $1.86 for GPT-5.6 Sol and $3.15 for Claude Fable 5. The catch: it scores 50 on intelligence where the frontier scores 66. Here's why the ratio still matters.

Aug 3, 2026