Reddit user benchmarks Haiku 5.5, Luna, DeepSeek Flash, Gemini 3.8 Flash
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A Reddit user running a custom orchestrator harness across every provider's models reports the four small models are "basically a tie on quality" on real work tasks, with big speed differences between them.
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