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AI Model Performance vs API Price

DeepSeek-V3 leads performance/price ratio

BlogDataScatter plotDeepSeek V3All DeepSeek modelsDeepSeek-V3GPT-4oClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 1.5 ProLlama-3.1-405B-InstructQwen2.5-72B-InstructMistral-Large-2411GLM-4-Plus
Published by DeepSeek on Blog. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com

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On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id 9716c271112b.

Approximate values. Our two readings of this chart agreed only in part (confidence 0.40 of 1), so check the original before you quote a number. The API marks it lowConfidence, and ?min_confidence=0.5 leaves it out.

PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/9716c271112bTitle, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/9716c271112b/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/9716c271112b/render?view=1The draw-only view this page usesOpen
POST/mcpTool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agentsMax
curlMax
curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/9716c271112b/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"
Claude CodeMax
claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.

Chart data

The numbers behind it

13 points. Estimated from the image Redrawn natively, with a way to make one with your own numbers.

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