Comment by KronisLV

Personal experience: for overall software development, DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max reasoning) is pretty fast and generally okay - it does fuck up regularly though and I’d compare it with maybe Sonnet.

It’s also quite affordable, at my current usage the DeepSeek tokens cost approx. the same as my Anthropic Max 100 USD subscription, though that’s also because DeepSeek generally needs more tokens.

I’d say I have fairly moderate usage, the DeepSeek dashboard shows around 100 million tokens per day, but almost all of it cache. Without cache it’d be like 1.5 million in and 0.5 million out most days, sometimes double, other times half.

Used it with Claude Code for a while, though I have to admit that using OpenCode with DeepSeek just sparks joy. Tone wise, it’s also a bit less obnoxious than Opus sometimes, though the flip side is that it’s wrong more often and sometimes just does dumb shit when it comes to code.