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Thanks... I have been trying to figure out some things. Been doing my own evals. Flash 3.8 does burn a lot more tokens on high. Interesting how smart and not smart it is. For personal use almost impossible to justify the cost of 3.8 Flash cost.

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Deepseek also burns a lot of tokens, its output on high is 2x of Gemini on medium. But it's dirt-cheap so it still can be 60-70% cheaper.

From the large models Kimi K3 is definitely the one burning the smallest amount of tokens. Even if you pay for the fast version in Fireworks it's third of the price of Opus 5 for the same task.

All this really needs evals, the token prices tell nothing.

I am surprised at how well DSv4 flash does in the real world vs many benchmarks. You look at Flash 3.8 and it supposedly beats opus 5 and deepseek is far below.. but they were measuring efficiency, whatever that is… Something doesn’t add up for me on the published benches

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