DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.15/$0.60 with generous limits sparks debate on Chinese model pricing
A user notes V4.1 Flash's off-peak $0.15/$0.60 pricing, matching or beating Sol on some agentic boards, plus near-unlimited free access on platforms like OpenCode, questioning OpenAI and Anthropic's expensive gated frontier models.
How tf when a Chinese model gets close to frontier performance it almost always shows up in one of two ways either extremely cheap or much higher usage limits.... DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.15/$0.60 off peak while matching or beating Sol on some agentic boards also has much higher usage limits like free or near unlimited access on platforms like OpenCode or generous free tiers that Anthropic, OpenAI don’t offer on their frontier models... OpenAI and Anthropic keep the best models expensive and usage gated while Chinese labs keep shipping models that are "good enough" at a fraction of the cost or with way more free usage something is truly fishy here idk