DeepSeek 4.1 Flash dubbed an invasive species: up to 133x cheaper than rivals
intellectronica · x · 2026-09-11
A viral post compares DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to an invasive species — like Döner displacing all fast food in Germany — squeezing out other LLMs on unit economics: 2.3x cheaper cached input, 1.5x cheaper uncached input, 10% cheaper output. It reportedly matches Sol on benchmarks while being 33-66x cheaper than Terra and 66-133x cheaper than Sol depending on peak/off-peak hours — nearly two orders of magnitude.
intellectronica quipped that DeepSeek Flash and Döner are basically the same thing.
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