Luna Beats DeepSeek in Performance, but Agentic Costs Remain High
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-31
The author points out that Luna significantly outperforms DeepSeek V4-Pro in raw capabilities. However, in agentic sessions, Luna is not cheaper on a token basis: cache reads remain 5.5x more expensive, with penalties for longer sequences and extra charges for cache writes. The author suggests DeepSeek V4 needs improvement.
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