Claude: A Waste of Money
DeepSeek V4 is here. Not a press release, not a carefully curated blog post with cherry-picked benchmarks, but a 58-page research paper with nothing held back. And the conclusion it forces is uncomfortable for anyone paying twenty dollars a month for a premium AI subscription: Claude is a waste of money. This is not hyperbole. The numbers are public, and they are absurd. Depending on whether there is a discount or not, DeepSeek-V4 can be 30 times cheaper than Anthropic’s Claude. Even without a discount, you are looking at 8 to 20 times less. That is not a small difference. That is the kind of difference that makes you stop and ask what exactly you are paying for. ...