[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