The multimodal abilities are great, but if you deal with text only, what is the benefit of using this over DS V4 Flash/Pro? 13-26x cheaper with comparable intelligence, and available across many different inference providers.

I fail to see the usecase where DS V4 Pro is not enough, but Flash 3.7 is - except multimodal.

Luna is similar, and also 8x cheaper. Source: artificialanalysis

The only benefit I can see is the speed, that looks to be outstanding, probably thanks to their TPUs.

> 13-26x cheaper with comparable intelligence, and available across many different inference providers.

Well, compared to 2 months ago, it's no longer 100x more expensive for similar levels of quality...

If they continue monthly-ish releases by 3.9 - by Halloween - they should be close to the best in terms of what you get for what you pay for.

In 2 months, they've gone from basically the bottom of the pack to at least being somewhat usable and competitive.

OpenAI and Anthropic release in a month, and change things. OpenAI is claiming to be close to an Astra release - but that seems like a Fable type release - where they're just releasing a better more expensive model, not more cost effective models.

From my own testing, Gemini 3.5/3.6 Flash is better than DS v4 Flash/Pro on text ability.

> over DS V4 Flash/Pro? 13-26x cheaper with comparable intelligence, and available across many different inference providers.

That's why DS4 already had a huge price hike announcement.