[slopinthebag]

Deepseek v4 Pro on US hosting is like 1.5x cheaper and 5x cheaper on input/output compared to Sonnet, and that's not even a fair comparison because Deepseek is much stronger than Sonnet. It's more reasonable to compare with Opus 4.5, which is much more expensive.

[pants2]

Sure but you can also look at Grok 4.3, which is smarter and faster than DeepSeek at the same price point.

[slopinthebag]

I doubt that is the case

[pants2]

Grok 4.3 is smarter, cheaper, and faster than DS4 according to Artificial Analysis and OpenRouter:

DeepSeek v4 Pro

Intelligence: 52

Cost to run AA benchmark on Fireworks: 187M tokens @ $0.79/M blended cost = $147.73

Speed: 43 tok/s

Grok 4.3

Intelligence: 53

Cost: 88M tokens @ 0.64 blended = $56.32

Speed: 108 tok/s