Comment by Gigachad
4 hours ago
Qwen is weirdly expensive. Deepseek v4 flash is dirt cheap. You'd need at least 128gb of ram to run this model and in my experience, a days work with it costs around 80 cents.
4 hours ago
Qwen is weirdly expensive. Deepseek v4 flash is dirt cheap. You'd need at least 128gb of ram to run this model and in my experience, a days work with it costs around 80 cents.
So I ran the math, assuming the agent takes 75 turns per 200k context, with deepseek v4 flash it costs around $2.57 to reach 1M context in 375 turns. Cached input costs scale quadratically with # of agent turns.
Considering that I hit the 1M compaction multiple times per day with codex, it would definitely cost at least $5-8/day to use deepseek how I normally use codex.