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Kimi K3 (2.8T), DeepSeek V4 (1.6T) and GLM-5.2 (753B) are all open-weight and frontier-class. This decision matrix compares GPU footprint, API list price, and the monthly output-token volume where self-hosting each one
DeepSeek V4 is both a cheap API and an open-weight model you can self-host. Here is the 2026 cost math: Flash at $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens, H100/H200 rental rates, and the GPU utilization point where self-hosting pays.
On July 24, 2026 at 15:59 UTC, DeepSeek retires deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner, and calls using them then fail. Here is the exact migration to deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-pro.
