Comment by surgical_fire

This is a problem for OpenAI and Anthropic when they are bleeding money and in desperate need to jack up prices by moving people to their very expensive API.

It's very difficult to justify spending on the their models in a world where DeepSeek costs a fraction and Chinese open models exists and they perform as well as what is considered the state of the art, and it only depends on you adjusting how you use them.

A couple of days ago I canceled ChatGPT and started to try out DeepSeek. Let's see how it goes.