Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier

Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by reissbaker on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:18AM (#50389193)

Hey, thanks for the shout-out! (I'm one of the cofounders of Synthetic.new.) I think I recognize you from Discord :)

Yep, on subscription plans DS4.1-Flash-1017 feels more or less infinite. I still reach for Astra at the high end of tasks but DS is great for cheap "crawl the entire codebase and find query optimization" type tasks. I also use a lot of K3.1 Pro lately although admittedly it's a lot more expensive.

Also personally I find that the closed tiny models (Haiku, Luna) feel a lot less capable in practice than their benchmark scores indicate relative to DS.

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Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by tobblegobble on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:59AM (#50389452)

I just checked out your Go plan and noticed the GLM 5.3 Flash credits are pretty low compared to the other flash models. Is there any plans to change that?

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Re:Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier by hatefulmoron on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:05AM (#50389481)

I've been subscribed to Synthetic for months and it's a great service [I didn't put you first in my list because I don't want to shill :^)]

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