DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash vs. Claude Opus 4.7 and Kimi K2.6

i know i’ve been using Claude code with deepseek flash as the back end, and it means i can drop my claude subscription down from the £200/month to £18/month, using deepseek for most of the work and claude to just test the hypothesis and make fine tuning

I’m getting them to design HDL for an FPGA and write a compiler for the eventual CPU, not trivial tasks by any means