[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).