Machine Heart
Aug 8, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence
Measuring Harness: How a $0.175/M DeepSeek Setup Beats Claude Opus 4.8 by 57×
Floatboat’s benchmark shows that a DeepSeek‑V4‑Flash model running on Floatboat’s own Harness costs $0.175 per million tokens and outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 ($10/M) on all five third‑party tests, prompting the authors to introduce the Harness Leverage Ratio (HLR) to quantify how much value the Harness itself adds, especially for long‑running tasks.
AI AgentClaude OpusDeepSeek
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