Comment by apexalpha
15 hours ago
It was for me too but the new deepseek pricing is too good to ignore for now.
I honestly think that with my electricity prices running qwen 36B myself is more expensive than hitting the cache rate at deepseek.
15 hours ago
It was for me too but the new deepseek pricing is too good to ignore for now.
I honestly think that with my electricity prices running qwen 36B myself is more expensive than hitting the cache rate at deepseek.
Can you elaborate on DeepSeek (deepseek-v4-flash, i assume?). What does your typical usage pattern look like and what is your weekly/monthly spend?
I gave it a try for a few days (pi + openrouter + deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra) and ended up paying ~$18 for rather light usage. Yes it's still cheap, yes it's fast, but i feel i would still get a better deal with a Claude subscription plan.
DeepSeek without OpenRouter is wayyyy cheaper
Is it? OpenRouter shows DeepInfra being cheaper than DeepSeek directly
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260731#pr...
6 replies →
Going directly though DeepSeek's API and hitting all day long with light/medium tasks I'm at $5/month. That's with pretty vanilla ohmypi.
[dead]