# Ultramarine 1 Flash

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Ultramarine 1 Flash and 12 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for cheap, capable performance that people say matches GPT-Luna 6 on benchmarks and price, though critics doubt the benchmark claims.

## Why people recommend it

- Performs close to GPT-Luna 6 (2 comments): "for a specialised model, it performs extremely closely in score and price to GPT-Luna 6" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129890)) "it's open source and is actually cheap to run, while performing the same" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128586))
- Cheap to run (2 comments): "it's open source and is actually cheap to run, while performing the same" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128586)) "Price/performance is as advertised in my limited testing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130960))

## What people warn about

- Benchmarks look cherrypicked or misleading (5 comments): "The improvements in other areas might help coding, but aren't that big either, except on their own benchmark." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127783)) "They're definitely trying to mislead people into thinking this is something more than it is" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130449)) "That looks like extreme cherrypicking and doing this speaks against the Ultramarine team." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130127))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Opus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-opus.md): 3331 recommend
- [OpenAI GPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-5.md): 1205 recommend
- [Claude Sonnet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-sonnet.md): 854 recommend
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-v4-flash.md): 828 recommend
- [Fable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fable.md): 823 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ultramarine 1 Flash", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ultramarine-1-flash/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).