HEAD TO HEAD

DeepSeek Reasoner vs Dots3 Note vs Discovery vs Step 2

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

4 IS THE MAX. SWAP ONE OUT TO ADD ANOTHER.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):DeepSeek ReasonerDiscoveryStep 2STILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	DeepSeek Reasoner x	Dots3 Note x	Discovery x	Step 2 x
VIBE SCORE	6.8	7.4	7.6	7.5
VOICES	2,084	2,634	9,505	3,680
RANK	#48	#12	#3	#7
CATEGORY	Text	Multimodal	Text	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	OPEN WEIGHTS	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED
PRICE IN (per 1M)	N/A	FREE	N/A	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	N/A	FREE	N/A	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way	Sometimes makes things up

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HEAD TO HEAD

DeepSeek Reasoner vs Dots3 Note vs Discovery vs Step 2

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

4 IS THE MAX. SWAP ONE OUT TO ADD ANOTHER.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):DeepSeek ReasonerDiscoveryStep 2STILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	DeepSeek Reasoner x	Dots3 Note x	Discovery x	Step 2 x
VIBE SCORE	6.8	7.4	7.6	7.5
VOICES	2,084	2,634	9,505	3,680
RANK	#48	#12	#3	#7
CATEGORY	Text	Multimodal	Text	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	OPEN WEIGHTS	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED
PRICE IN (per 1M)	N/A	FREE	N/A	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	N/A	FREE	N/A	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way	Sometimes makes things up