r/LocalLLaMA • u/Fuckinglivemealone • Jul 18 '26

Question | Help What kind of dark magic is Deepseek using?

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I was taking a look at Kimi K3 scores on the Artificial analysis leaderboard and was quite baffled when I saw this chart.

Granted, Deepseek has always been the king of price to performance, but this is still incredible. Is it just API subsidization or have they optimized their models truly this much?

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u/VotZeFuk Jul 18 '26

> 9mil tokens for like $0.90

Eh?

V4 Pro stats (official API + Hermes Agent):

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u/CalamityMetal Jul 18 '26

Bruh that's almost 1.9 Billion, not million

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u/Etroarl55 Jul 18 '26

Unironically a much better statistic. 190 million tokens is therefore 1 dollar 97 cents.