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Comment by apexalpha

14 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.

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sparkling  13 hours ago

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.