DeepSeek + Pi Combo Beats Claude Code? Pi Founder Says He Called It

A public benchmark by Composio shows that Pi Harness with DeepSeek V4 Flash achieved the highest success rate (66.7%) among 8 agent frameworks, at a cost seven times lower than Claude Code. Earlier, developer 0xEvan processed nearly 1 billion tokens with Pi and DeepSeek V4 Flash, hitting a 99.93% cache hit rate for just $2.65. Pi founder Mario Zechner noted he had endorsed this combination back in May.