Subscription-subsidized cost chart shows DeepSeek V4.1 Flash hitting the frontier for free
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-28
A quoted chart plots Artificial Analysis index scores against subscription-derived per-task costs: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 max lands in the frontier zone at $0.00087/task, free, 173 tok/s — while Sonnet/Opus and GPT-6.1 tier models cluster at $0.01–$1 per task. The poster quips this is what "subscription subsidization turned on" looks like and would rather see OpenCode Go priced at $10.
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