Chinese AI Models Are 40x Cheaper Than GPT-4o — Here's the Proof

Honestly, when I first saw the numbers I didn't believe them. DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.25/M output vs GPT-4o at $10.00/M? That's not a pricing difference — that's a different universe. So I checked. And re-checked. And tested. And the numbers hold up. The Price Gap Nobody Is Talking About Model Output $/M vs DeepSeek V4 Flash GPT-4o $10.00 40× more expensive Claude 3.5 Sonnet $15.00 60× more Gemini 1.5 Pro $5.00 20× more DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.25 Baseline Qwen3-32B $0.28...