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It's not unheard of for "more expensive" models (on a per-token basis) to end up cheaper than weaker models (on a per-task basis).

Kimi K2.5 is roughly double the price (per token) of DeepSeek v4 Pro, but cost $0.05 vs $0.16 (for the same score) on my own benchmark.

https://sql-benchmark.nicklothian.com/?highlight=moonshotai_...

https://sql-benchmark.nicklothian.com/?highlight=deepseek_de...