DeepSeek-V4-Flash Eval: Underperforms Kimi K3 in Both Cost and Score

kms_dev · reddit · 2026-08-01

A developer tested DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 across 34 prompts. The results show that the model's providers on OpenRouter were unstable, requiring multiple generation retries.

In terms of cost and performance, DeepSeek-V4-Flash cost $1.29 and scored 2.7/5 with 5 failed outputs. In contrast, Kimi K3 cost only $0.44, scored 3.2/5, and had zero failures.

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