[mcapodici]

I was experimenting and found deepseek-v4-flash and found it cheap (way cheap compared to sota models) and perfectly good at tool calling. I did a post on it https://martincapodici.com/2026/07/18/weekly-ai-learnings-3/

So $1.5 for 40m tokens I guess would cost much more with sota (but would need less tokens perhaps).