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Comment by onlyrealcuzzo

2 hours ago

OpenRouter is complete garbage.

Buy directly from DeepSeek's API.

You can literally get overcharged 100x on DeepSeek on OpenRouter (or more).

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georgel  2 hours ago

I'm all in for saving money and _can_ move to using DS directly from them, but maybe I am missing something here:

OpenRouter Pricing:

$0.02/M input tokens $0.60/M output tokens

DeepSeek Pricing (cache miss, off-peak):

$0.15/M Input $0.60/m output

  • girvo  1 hour ago

    When 98.5% of my requests are cache hits (according to Pi for the last week), the cache miss price isn’t that important to me, and $0.003-0.006 per 1M input tokens is shockingly cheap.

    It’s also the major difference between using DeepSeek directly vs other providers also serving it, though I have not looked lately: it’s possible other providers have matched its cache hit pricing better?

  • mswphd  1 hour ago

    I've heard that certain inference providers may have different quality of caching implementations, so even if the listed numbers are as you say, the practical cache hit % you get might be significantly different/incur significantly different costs.

  • ckdot  37 minutes ago

    There’s a big difference in speed & quality between using DeepSeek API directly with DSH vs. DeepSeek in Opencode Go with Opencode CLI. Can’t tell if it’s the provider or the harness - but worth to give it a try.