DeepSeek V4 Flash Tops ARC-AGI Cost-Performance Frontier

DeepSeek V4 Flash redefines the cost-performance Pareto frontier in the ARC-AGI benchmark at a quarter of the cost of GPT-5.6. Meanwhile, an analysis of reasoning models reveals a counterintuitive jagged cost curve where higher inference performance often correlates with lower costs.

2026-08-08 ~ 2026-08-08 · 2 related posts

• DeepSeek V4 Flash Dominates ARC-AGI Cost-Performance Frontier at 1/4 the Cost — GregKamradt · 2026-08-08
• ARC-AGI Insight: More Reasoning Tokens Lead to Wrong Hypotheses; GPT-5.6 Max is Cheaper — GregKamradt · 2026-08-08