A version of Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s (深度求索) flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among well-known models globally and more than 100 times cheaper to run than Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5, San Francisco-based Artificial Analysis sai

Some of the smartest software on Earth is rapidly becoming a commodity.

DeepSeek V4 Flash is 105x cheaper than Claude Fable 5. Yet, enterprise AI costs rise in other ways, making cheaper models more expensive.