I gave one brief to two coding agents and walked away.
Same data, same page. One bill was 40x the other. The brief: take 1,038 signals from my crypto judge with the price 24h later, build a page that shows how often each score bucket rugged. Claude Code + Opus 5: 6 min, $1.19.
Cactus released Needle 3, an 8-29MB automation model matching DeepSeek V4 Flash.
One weight set, depths 2-20 layers, each its own model. Runs on Pi 5 at up to 4,000 tok/s. Not for chat, function calls only, returns empty if no tool fits.
Top-5 Best Value #LLM Models of the Day at UTC-16
| Model | #AAII | Price | | GLM 5.3 Flash | 42 | $0.09 | | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | 40 | $0.14 | | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 34 | $0.04 | | GLM 5.3 | 45 | $0.98 | | GPT-5.6 Luna | 38 | $0.18 |
Pelican tests Deepseek 4.1 flash and ranks third in the world
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