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idk, sol 6.1 is both cheap and capable. i've been using it exclusively, i don't need to care about usage, and it's really smart.

yes maybe opus 5.5 is stronger and flash is cheaper, but 6.1 strikes a good balance imo.

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OpenAI models don’t come close to competing with deepseek in cost quality ratio. I have a $20 plus plan and I run out of my 5h limit in literal minutes, every tick of the harness is like 10% of my 5h limit.

You can in contrast get far more done with $20 worth of deepseek api spend. No comparison.

maybe, but sol 6.1 is far more capable than deepseek, and i love deepseek

i have a feeling that Sol is just Astra low, but with lowest possible priority on the compute.

I believe it's Astra quantized. It was briefly named astra-lite.

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