DeepSeek v4 Flash (0731) vs Kimi K3 (10x more weights)
i gave both the exact same prompt, in the exact same harness: one-shot a luxury product landing page ($10,000 "ARC-01" concept object).
results in the video. my take:
Kimi K3: wins on polish. Better typography hierarchy, more confident use of negative space, and the hero product shot integration is genuinely beautiful
DeepSeek v4 Flash: very close. The structure is right, the copy is right, the layout logic is right. It loses on finish, not on fundamentals.
a 10x smaller model getting ~90% of the way there. a year ago this gap would have been embarrassing.
mind you it cost less than $0.10 for 6 build iterations and 8 QA passes.
small models aren't "good for their size" anymore. they're just good.