We kept noticing the same thing in the community: developers love DeepSeek V4 Pro. It's everywhere — in side projects, in production, in the tools people reach for first.

And looking at it, the relationship between its price and its usage seemed interesting — not the cheapest, not the priciest, yet consumed at a volume that didn't line up with cost the way you'd naively expect.

That made us wonder: what if we tallied every model ZenMux serves the same way — its standardized basket price against the real tokens it serves per day — and looked at the whole field at once? Where does the compute, and the money, actually flow?

So we did. This study is that tally: every text model on the platform, scored on two axes — what it costs and how much it's truly used — so the value frontier becomes something you can see rather than guess.

“Price is what you pay. Usage is what the market actually believes.”