How does it compare to 5.6 Luna after the permanent 80% price cut?
That one is dirt cheap at API pricing, I can't imagine quota is going to be a concern on the $200 subscription, which in my opinion easily supports full time use of 5.6 Sol on xhigh.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
by monster_truck on Sunday August 09, 2026 @02:51PM
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It's still laughable. They blew it. I'm not sure they could even pay me to use their models at this point (and I don't mean via employment, meta and its refugees are permabanned to me). My experience over the past few months with open models has me seriously entertaining moving east.
A couple of very talented friends were uttering curses upon the entire bloodline of whoever convinced them to try letting sol xhigh do serious work. Deepseek cleaned it up for a fraction of $20.
Since you did not compare them, I now checked myself, and it looks like Luna benchmarks about the same as DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731.
The cost per task was $0.03 with DeepSeek, $0.05 with Luna. $1.23 for Sol.
Tokens per second 132, 202, 70 respectively.
It's that good. They are far from capacity limited, and even if they were, you can rent a single MI300X from somewhere like Hot Aisle and get more tk/s than you'll be able to use.