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But I'm fine paying +50% more for +5% increased performance because it will pay off.

Performance difference it large by all benchmarks. DeepSeek fell behind. It's Kimi K3 or GLM-5.3 now.

It still occupies a place on the Pareto frontier.

IMO Pareto frontier is a lie. At any given moment there's only one "best" strategy and my guess would be in most cases it is just using the best model.

Fable all day? Cost is not an issue for you then.

> Pareto frontier is a lie.

I'll be sure to tell the economists.

You're just price insensitive. The point of a Pareto frontier is mapping cost and utility. Not everyone can afford to run fable all day.

Maybe you missed deepseek v4 Pro. Try it in minimal mode, where it gets up to around Kimi or Opus level.

$100/month is incredibly cheap considering that might buy you one hour of an actual human developer's time.