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GPT-6 Luna vs GPT-5.4 Mini compared: rate card, context windows, knowledge cutoffs, and the shared Artificial Analysis harness where Luna leads the Intelligence Index 37 to 24 at 6.4x lower cost per task, while mini wins on speed. Vendor scorecard gaps stated honestly.
GPT-5.6 Luna vs GPT-5.4 mini compared across official coding, reasoning, tool-use, multimodal, computer-use and long-context results, plus pricing and a practical routing strategy.
DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.28/1M, MIT) vs GPT-5.4 Mini ($4.50/1M). Mini leads SWE-bench Pro (+1.8) & Terminal-Bench (+3.1). Flash leads LiveCodeBench (91.6%), HLE (+3.6), and is 16× cheaper. The budget coding tier has never been more competitive.
17 budget AI coding models ranked by output price ($0.28–$5.00/1M), SWE-bench Pro scores, and real-world CodingFleet speed. DeepSeek V4 Flash cheapest ($0.28). MiniMax M3 best open-weight (59.0% Pro). GPT-5.4 Mini fastest (439.8 char/s). Complete value-per-dollar analysis.