[tylersmith]

No free models are even in the same class as Claude when it comes to code. Investors are clearly confident that moat won't be crossed soon.

[BeetleB]

According to Aider's leaderboards, R1 is not that far behind Sonnet (without thinking): 56.9% vs 60.4%

Sonnet with thinking is at 64.9% (the top), but it's pricey - about double the cost without thinking.

https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

[buyucu]

In my experience DeepSeek is far better than Claude for coding.