Is it that surprising given Deepseek is great enough for most use cases (like implementation) and prices are off by an order of magnitude?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.098/$0.196
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro $0.435/$0.87
v/s
Anthropic: Claude Haiku $1/$5
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet $3/$15
Anthropic: Claude Opus $5/$25
Many people (me included) sometimes use Opus-class models to plan then swap to Deepseek and/or local models for implementation. The real AI war is in the pricing/performance ratio, and it doesn't look like any of the US-based models are winning on that front.