alt Hacker NewsI 100% agree and am a big fan of DS V4.1 Flash in general for this reason, but I'll add my own caveat: Sol 6.1 isn't far behind on completion time for tasks because it's so damn efficient. I regularly get ~300 tokens/sec with DeepSeek Flash, but it spends the majority of that time thinking and executing slow commands one by one, whereas Sol thinks less and is much smarter about the commands it runs, resulting in far fewer turns to get the same thing done. For highly agentic tasks, DS might only be ~25-50% faster, not 500% as the TPS may suggest.
(But to be clear: 25-50% faster is still a big win in my book.)
+1; using Sol 6.1 in Ultrafast is noticeably faster than DS 4.1 Flash in real world tasks where marginal intelligence and token efficiency matters. Yes it costs more, but that’s a function of how valuable is the thing you are iterating on.