[resonious]

The artificialanalysis cost per task chart has DeepSeek as the clear winner and Fable as the clear loser. But I would still pick Fable for some tasks, so that also can't be all there is to it.

But I agree that price per token figure is not great. It seems even the tokens per character can vary between models, so it's basically useless.

[a_wild_dandan]

Wow, you weren't kidding. I looked at their chart, and the cost-per-task for Fable is more than double Sol's. And DeepSeek absolutely stomps. Four cents per-task vs Sol's $1 and Fable's $3.

I might need to check out DeepSeek more. I had no idea the difference was this obscene. Makes me wonder if something's off with the benchmark. A 70x cost reduction vs. Fable seems too good to be true.

[SwellJoe]

In my benchmarks of security auditing abilities of models, DeepSeek was roughly an order of magnitude cheaper than either GPT 5.5 or Opus 4.8, less than ten cents per task vs. roughly a buck each for the best American models at the time.

GPT 5.5 Pro was ~230x at almost $23 per task.

DeepSeek is my go-to when I need an API, and local Gemma 4 won't do because it's either too slow or not capable enough. DeepSeek isn't at the frontier but it's good enough for a lot of things, very cheap, and quite fast. Flash is even faster and cheaper, and still better than anything I can host locally.

[MrBuddyCasino]

Almost as if centuries of passing the imperial exam by either skill or cheating influenced Chinese culture a lot.