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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash outperforms Claude Opus 5.5, offers 33x cost savings

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, an open-weight model, has demonstrated superior performance compared to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 on a specific benchmark, scoring 45.1 against Opus's 57.6. This performance gap suggests that open-weight models are becoming increasingly competitive with proprietary offerings. Furthermore, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is significantly more cost-effective, costing 33 times less per million output tokens. AI

IMPACT Highlights the growing competitiveness of open-weight models against proprietary ones, potentially driving down costs for AI services.

RANK_REASON Comparison of model performance and cost-effectiveness between an open-weight and a proprietary LLM. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash outperforms Claude Opus 5.5, offers 33x cost savings

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · opensourceaitech ·

    ⚖️ Open vs proprietary, today Open-weight: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 - 45.1 Proprietary: Claude Opus 5.5 - 57.6 Gap: 12.5 points · and 33x cheaper per 1M output

    ⚖️ Open vs proprietary, today Open-weight: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 - 45.1 Proprietary: Claude Opus 5.5 - 57.6 Gap: 12.5 points · and 33x cheaper per 1M output tokens https:// olud.ai/leaderboard.html # OpenSource # AI # LLM

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