DeepSeek V4 Flash is #2 open-weight model, >50x cheaper

Priced at $0.09 input / $0.18 output per 1M tokens, DeepSeek's flash model ranks roughly #2 among open-weight models behind Kimi K3 while being >50x cheaper.
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