Blogger's test: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 98% of GPT-6 Astra at 1.4% of the cost
solyarisoftware · x · 2026-09-10
Blogger NFTChen's everyday design-task benchmark puts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at 81.2 vs GPT-6 Astra's 82.7 (98%), edging past Claude Fable 5.1 at 80.3 — at roughly 1.4% of Astra's cost ($0.023 vs $1.61) and about 2x faster (5.3 vs 11.1 minutes). A quoted cursive OCR test (270 chars) shows Kimi2.6 perfect, Qwen3.8-Max next, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash tied for third (7 errors) with GLM 5.3 Flash and Gemini 3.1 Pro, but running at 260 tok/s with sub-3s single-image OCR and a recent price cut, making it strong for large-scale ancient-text digitization. Data from personal testing, not independently verified.
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