diff --git a/app/priv/blog/engineering/2026/10-21-to-cheap-to-meter-open-weight-models-in-october-2026.md b/app/priv/blog/engineering/2026/10-21-to-cheap-to-meter-open-weight-models-in-october-2026.md index 8bfe660..41f78ad 100644 --- a/app/priv/blog/engineering/2026/10-21-to-cheap-to-meter-open-weight-models-in-october-2026.md +++ b/app/priv/blog/engineering/2026/10-21-to-cheap-to-meter-open-weight-models-in-october-2026.md @@ -2,14 +2,16 @@ title: "To Cheap to Meter - Open Weight models in October 2026", author: "Willem van den Ende", tags: ~w(Local-Models), - description: "Earlier today I saw that the 17 October release of Deepseek v4 Flash is even more efficient than previous versions, threatening dominance of american AI labs. GLM 5.3 is already very cheap, I dug out some numbers from my inference provider for you to check.", + description: "Earlier today I saw that the 17 October release of Deepseek v4 Flash is even more efficient than previous versions, threatening dominance of american AI labs. GLM 5.3 Flash is already very cheap, I dug out some numbers from my inference provider for you to check.", image: "/images/blog/2026/cache-use-glm.png", published: true } --- Earlier today I saw that the 17 October release of Deepseek v4 Flash is even more efficient than previous versions, [threatening dominance of american AI labs.](https://georgzoeller.com/blog/posts/chinese-flash-models-are-the-coup-de-gr-ce-for-us-ai-lab-investor-fantasies/) -Someone asked me about my current setup, as they burn through their weekly AI plan quickly. I did a shallow dive in the costs of the larger open weight model I use online. I didn’t use much local tokens this week, see below for my local setup this month. +Someone asked me about my current setup, as they burn through their weekly AI plan quickly. I did a shallow dive in the costs of the larger open weight model I use online, GLM 5.3 Flash. I didn’t use much local tokens this week, see below for my local setup this month. + +I will try the latest Deepseek as soon as my current inference provider has it up and running, probably somewhere later this week. ## GLM 5.3 what does it cost for a coding agent, with Zero Data Retention in Europe?