OpenModels DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 vs Claude Opus 4.8: The 1 Cent Agent Run DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-0731 on July 31 with the same architecture and 7.4x the DeepSWE score. We priced the benchmark table nobody prices: one cached agent run costs $0.0096 against $0.73 on Claude Opus 4.8.
DeepSeek DeepSeek API Migration: Replace deepseek-chat Before July 24 Replace DeepSeek's retiring API aliases, choose V4 Flash or Pro, test thinking-mode behavior, and add a fallback through one OpenModels endpoint.
