DeepSeek v4-pro Beats Opus at Minimal Cost, But Real-World Differences Remain Marginal
haider1 · x · 2026-08-13
The author points out that DeepSeek v4-pro genuinely delivers insane performance by beating Opus 4.8 across several benchmarks at almost no cost. However, he notes that the gap among frontier models is currently within just a few points, meaning users will hardly notice any difference in real-world applications outside of one-shot demos.
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