DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Gemini 4 Argon: 85% cheaper, twice as fast
A test claims DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 High is over 85% cheaper and twice as fast as Gemini 4 Argon High at under 0.3 cents per API run, with close quality.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 High vs Gemini 4 Argon High, DeepSeek was over 85% cheaper than Argon in this test and finished the task twice as fast, costing less than 0.3 cents through the API, What's even more impressive is how close DeepSeek gets to Argon in terms of quality, especially considering it's a natively multimodal MoE model with just 552B parameters, I still can't get over how efficient this model is, the quality keeps surprising me and the speed makes it even better. I'm now running much more demanding tests that go around three times deeper and take considerably longer, so I'll be sharing more detailed results and benchmarks in a few hours!