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DeepSeek releases AI model that approaches Anthropic’s performance at a fraction of the cost
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The Chinese AI lab's V4-Flash model reportedly matches Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks while costing roughly 99% less to run.
Key facts
- Anthropic charges somewhere in the $25 to $30 range for comparable work
- The Chinese AI lab's V4-Flash model reportedly matches Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks while costing roughly 99% less to run
- V4-Flash performs on par with Claude Opus 4.8 in benchmarks covering reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks while operating at approximately 99% less cost
- The model uses approximately 90 KV cache entries to process images, compared to roughly 870 for Claude models
Summary
DeepSeek dropped what might be the most cost-efficient frontier AI model on the market. The company released preview versions of DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash on April 24, 2026, the latest entries in its V4 model family. The technical architecture behind V4-Flash is where things get interesting. DeepSeek’s models also support long-context handling of up to 1 million tokens.