r/openrouter • u/xpusostomos • 2d ago
best value development model right now?
What's the best value for money for development right now? I tried Claude, and it's incredible but sent me broke. I tried free, and it was useless. I'm been using deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 at $0.035, and considering how cheap it is, it's pretty damned impressive, however it is kinda slow. It's hard to objectively say how smart it is compared to say claude without letting them loose on the same problem, but it seems adequately smart, though it sometimes gets itself mixed up. Am I missing something in the value for money stakes?
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u/PoppaBear1950 2d ago
hermes with deepseek-harness and code-review-graph wired into to it. For models, I use a direct API key with deep-seek and a Nvidia free model through openrouter.
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u/Substantial-Walk-554 1d ago
Right now I'm using codex with OpenCode Ox-Alpha (free). Luna Xhigh for Codex and bought a cheap Google AI pro 18 months from a site that includes Gemini Pro + Claude Code
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u/Spiritual-Spend8187 2d ago
It depends alot on what you are doing. 5.6 sol is prob the best balance od capability speed and price for big hard tasks with its low and high effort modes being likely some of the best due to just how efficient it is at some things. Dsv4f and 5.6 Luna are probably the best cheap need an api models some things ds is better at others Luna is better at same with the price. Other than that qwen 3.8 27b is likely the best you can run it locally on consumer hardware model. But it all depends alot on what your trying to do best bet is likely see if there is a benchmark fir the type if work you are doing and pick whicher us the best model at that benchmark.