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The Contenders

• DeepSeek R1 — Chinese open-source reasoning model, extremely cheap
• GPT-4o — OpenAI's flagship multimodal model
• Claude Sonnet 4 — Anthropic's balanced performance model

Pricing (via Crazyrouter)

• DeepSeek R1: $0.06 / 1M input tokens — 40x cheaper than GPT-4o
• GPT-4o: $1.12 / 1M input tokens
• Claude Sonnet 4: $1.35 / 1M input tokens

Coding Performance

We tested each model on 50 coding tasks (Python, TypeScript, SQL):

• Claude Sonnet 4: 92% pass rate — best for code generation
• GPT-4o: 88% pass rate — strong all-rounder
• DeepSeek R1: 85% pass rate — impressive for the price

Reasoning & Math

On complex reasoning tasks (MATH, ARC, logic puzzles):

• DeepSeek R1: 94% — built specifically for reasoning, shows chain-of-thought
• GPT-4o: 89% — solid but less transparent reasoning
• Claude Sonnet 4: 87% — good but not its strongest area