Absolutely! DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 has become my daily driver. It's pretty amazing what it can do for what it costs at deepinfra.com (I don't use deepseek as a provider since they train on your data [at least their honest about it]). GLM-5.1 was my daily driver before that and Kimi K2.5 before that.

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tristanMatthias 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

How does it compare to 4.1 flash? Curious why folks don’t use the more “modern” one.

	▲	joshheitzman 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I haven't tried 4.1 flash as I'm assuming its a preview. I did not get good results from the preview version of 4.0 flash (i.e. the one that did not include the month and date of release in its name).

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kingforaday an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you finding DS better then kimi k3 and glm-5.3? Do you mind sharing your primary use case?

	▲	pimeys 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've used Kimi K3 for a few months as my main model and DeepSeek 4.1 is as fast and about 10x cheaper. I just had like four big sessions going today, paid about $8 in tokens. I see no reason to pay more, this is more than I need for intelligence.
	▲	joshheitzman 39 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		My primary use is AI coding agent. Its vastly cheaper than Kimi K3 and I haven't found a scenario where I really need Kimi K3 versus smaller models. GLM-5.3 Flash is good but there is series of bugs in the vllm middleware that prevent GLM models from getting all of their reasoning content returned to them that impairs inference quality. A lot of inference providers use vllm which makes it hard to find a good provider for GLM. I've been using friendli.ai but using GLM-5.3 Flash from them is more expensive then using DS V4 Flash from deepinfra.com simply because deepinfra.com is so cheap. The DS V4 Flash cost at together.ai is similar to the GLM-5.3 Flash from friendli.ai or at least that's what I found in my benchmarks a week ago: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joshheitzman_i-ran-a-fuller-r...