Cline: Average Turns per Task Nearly Doubles as DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Slashes Cost

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Key Info

Cline reports that the average number of interaction turns per task nearly doubled—from 26 in March to 50 in August—and credits cost efficiencies from models like DeepSeek V4.1-Flash for letting users take on larger autonomous jobs.

Highlights

  • Average turns per task in Cline rose from 26 in March to 50 in August, a roughly 2x increase in five months.
  • Cline attributes this to cheaper frontier models, specifically pointing to DeepSeek V4.1-Flash, which reportedly beats DeepSeek V4-Pro 0813 less than a month after release.
  • Priced at $0.30/$1.20 per 1M input/output tokens, DeepSeek V4.1-Flash costs about 1/20th of Opus 5, 1/17th of GPT-5.6 Sol, and 1/12th of Kimi K3—while outperforming all three on Terminal-Bench.
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