DeepSeek V4 Flash with self-verification scaling beats Claude Fable 5 at 1/11 the cost
KingDDev · x · 2026-08-19
The quoted post claims that DeepSeek V4 Flash with scaling self-verification beats Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 while being 11x cheaper. The poster jokes in reply: what if you run 5x Fable 5 with a 6th as judge?
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