# Research Report 002 • 2026-02-21
Feb 2026 AI Market: The Cost-Reasoning-Speed Triangle
DeepSeek R1 crushes the cost curve, OpenAI o1 maintains premium reasoning with a price tag, and Groq turns latency into a product-level moat.
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Key Highlights
DeepSeek R1
$0.55/1M
Groq
0.1s latency
# Research Report 001 • 2026-02-08
The 766% Tax: Unmasking the Invisible Reasoning Tokens of OpenAI o4
An aggressive audit of OpenAI's o4 hidden reasoning tokens vs the ROI of DeepSeek-V3.
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Key Highlights
DeepSeek-V3
$570/1M calls
Llama-3.3 (Groq)
$827/1M calls
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