ValsAI: 4 of 7 frontier models keep 80%+ performance at lowest reasoning effort for half the cost
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-04
ValsAI tested seven frontier models at three reasoning-effort levels across the Vals Index and found that four retained at least 80% of their performance at the lowest setting, at half the cost or less.
In a quote-tweet, teortaxesTex adds a note on DeepSeek: the chart looks as if Max is the only sensible setting, but DeepSeek has reasonable scaling — Max costs 2x Low ($0.29 vs $0.59), with a log-scale chart provided.
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