Four models compared on a sea-cliff castle animation prompt
Given the same prompt, Claude Opus 5.5 spent 33 minutes and $4.29 to render a storm-hit sea-cliff castle with the most detailed crashing waves, roughly 301x the cost of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at one cent.
The 1-cent model in this grid has the most lightning: six blue flashes in 15 seconds. That is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, done in 2 minutes. Claude Opus 5.5 ran 33 minutes and cost $4.29 - about 301x more. GLM 5.3 took 6 minutes and 12 cents. GPT-6 Sol was done in under a minute for 4 cents. All four built a castle on a sea cliff in a storm. The waves crashing on the rocks below are another story. Only Opus shows them hit - white spray shooting up its cliff, still going at 0:14. DeepSeek paints its sea as black and white zebra stripes. GLM 5.3 lets half its cell go black, and the water only shows when lightning hits at 0:02 and 0:05. GPT-6 Sol shows no sea at all. Its castle stands on a rock that splays out into legs, like a table. Lightning count for Opus: four, each one a real zigzag. Two short of the 1-cent model. https://x.com/buzzhive_ai/status/2113417898165178525
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