[Gigachad]

For all of the use cases being hyped you really do, and you actually need something much better than the SOTA models to do what we are being told can be done.

The small models are useful for small things like summarizing text or search but not much else.

[LetsGetTechnicl]

Yeah a lot of AI hype is look at the amazing new thing our new model can do! Like Google at this event. But when pressed about its pricing reality the answer is “use a worse cheaper model”?? Real convincing argument there

[GaggiX]

If don't want to spend 1.5$/9$ for the lastest model then yes use a cheaper model, DeepSeek V4 Flash is 0.11$/0.22$ on OpenRouter and it's more capable than the most expensive model a year ago. Models have never been so cheap given their capabilities unless you want to follow the SOTA (where the hype is).