AI costs shouldn’t be a black box.
Common Adi is 20%+ cheaper, with transparent billing + public logs, and no lock-in / no hidden fees.
Predictable spend. Faster shipping.
A Russian AI YouTuber ran Tencent Hy4 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash through 3 coding tests, both on CometAPI.
Hy4: 110 min, $3.83
DeepSeek: 180 min, $1.47
(DeepSeek's first run got DQ'd for snooping his API keys 😅)
Full duel 👇
every OoT veteran on the Switch 2 remake rn 👇
left: $0.17 (Gemini 4 Carbon)
right: $0.65 (Fable 5.2, low effort)
same prompt. same skill issue.
both ran on one CometAPI key,
at least the bill didn't fall off a cliff
Gemini 4 Carbon is rolling out today. It’s built for sustained, long-horizon tasks, reasoning deeply through complex software engineering, cybersecurity, and scientific discovery.
Coming globally via the Gemini API in @GoogleAIStudio and Gemini for business, and for Ultra
everyone's arguing fable vs carbon this week.
meanwhile tencent's hy4 just walked in with 1M context, image input, and $2/M output.
live on CometAPI now. model id: hy4, 20% under official.