Comment by VonLuderitz

17 hours ago

This month I changed my Claude Max Subscription to DeepSeek API. V4.1 Flash is fast and perfect for everything and refuses to almost nothing.

Hope DeepSeek starts month plans soon.

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nicce  15 hours ago

> Hope DeepSeek starts month plans soon.

Do they really need since they are already cheap, make apparently profits with interference and API costs follow the usage? Monthly plan doesn't have much benefits for them, if most would be power users anyway? Only reason is to get more users on the platform, but people already get there, anyway.

woodada  13 hours ago

Start monthly plans... so we can pay _more_? Lol. I've moved >80% of my daily coding usage to deepseek-flash, and at their current token pricing it's effectively free. Any monthly plan would almost certainly increase the cost.

They use your data for training though. Mostly I'm fine with that, but you do need to be mindful of what traffic you send their way.

mixermachine  12 hours ago

You could consider going with OpenCode Go for 10$. The value you get is claimed to be 80$ in DeepSeek v4.1 Flash API value. I use that and so far it is good for me. Some claim they run a different quant but I so far don't see that.

  • dcchambers  10 hours ago

    Dax has said time and again they don't quantize the models they offer. Assuming they trust their upstream providers (I don't think believe they run their own inference) and we trust them, what you get with OpenCode Go is exactly what you'd get from the DeepSeek API.

    I am personally a very happy OpenCode Go user. $10 month has never felt more useful.

XCSme  16 hours ago

I recently got Claude Max 5x, after using ChatGPT Pro 20x for a while, and I find the Claude Max value really good. For $90/m, the weekly usage is great AND you get $100 of API credits per month too.

  • XCSme  14 hours ago

    Why the downvotes, lol?

    I do believe Claude Max 5x gives best quality/value at the moment out of all plans/providers.

samuria  14 hours ago

>refuses to almost nothing

What do you do to make it not refuse cybersec related activities? Sometimes it refuses to even scan my own codebase for vulnerabilities which is bizarre.