
A developer tested Astra and DeepSeek V4.1-1017 Flash with the same prompt and maximum reasoning effort. The results surprised me. - Astra: 20 minutes, $7. Better attention to detail and a more original result than GPT models typically produce. - DeepSeek: 1 hour 40 minutes, $0.90. An absolutely stunning environment, but the koi fish didn't turn out so well.