deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model. It's $0.14/million input and $0.27/million output pricing means this may currently be the best value-per-intelligence model out there. It's looking very good on the Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task chart:

I got a disappointing pelican from it using the default reasoning level via OpenRouter:

But when I bumped reasoning level up to high I got something much better:

`llm -m openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 -t pelican -o reasoning_effort high`

Via [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299)

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