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Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by pupppet on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:26PM (#50388189)
Oh really? I have tasks that DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is absolutely murdering everything else on price–performance.
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Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by jimbokun on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:46PM (#50388341)
Maybe that’s in the 3% mentioned in the article.
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Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by sroerick on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:49PM (#50388365)
Not to mention the insane discounts I'm getting with subscriptions on it

I'm running full swarming on a 90$ subscription lol

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Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by aleqs on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:30AM (#50388572)
Which sub(s) do you use?
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Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by sroerick on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:33PM (#50397220)
Synthetic, Neural watt has been great too
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Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by aleqs on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:32AM (#50388582)
Yeah, I'd say I get about 10x net of equivalent quality output/usage with DeepSeek over an anthropic sub.
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