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This is shockingly cheap for a near frontier model. This is insane. For context, for an agent we're working on, we're using 5-mini, which is $2/1m tokens. This
by rohanm93 5mo ago
This is shockingly cheap for a near frontier model. This is insane.
For context, for an agent we're working on, we're using 5-mini, which is $2/1m tokens. This is $0.30/1m tokens. And it's Opus 4.6 level - this can't be real.
I am uncomfortable about sending user data which may contain PII to their servers in China so I won't be using this as appealing as it sounds. I need this to come to a US-hosted environment at an equivalent price.
Hosting this on my own + renting GPUs is much more expensive than DeepSeek's quoted price, so not an option.
- fractalf 5mo agoRight now Im much more worried about sending data to the US and A.. At least theres a less chanse it will be missused against -me-
- esperent 5mo ago> I am uncomfortable about sending user data which may contain PII to their servers in China As a European I feel deeply uncomfortable about sending data to US companies where I know for sure that the government has access to it. I also feel uncomfortable sending it to China. If you'd asked me ten years ago which one made me more uncomfortable. China. But now I'm not so sure, in fact I'm starting to lean towards the US as being the major risk.
- tiahura 5mo agoThe chances of my bank account getting hacked due to the PLA backdoor in Deepseek is higher than the CIA backdoor in OpenAI.
- swiftcoder 5mo ago> For context, for an agent we're working on, we're using 5-mini, which is $2/1m tokens. This is $0.30/1m tokens. And it's Opus 4.6 level - this can't be real. It's doesn't seem all that out there compared to the other Chinese model price/performance? Kimi2.6 is cheaper even than this, and is pretty close in performance
- rohanm93 5mo agoKimi is indeed somewhat cheap for frontier-level intelligence, but still is $4-5 per mm tokens. Deep Seek is at least an order of magnitude cheaper.
- swiftcoder 5mo agoOh, right you are. I misread where the decimal place was in the Deepseek pricing. That is incredibly cheap
- gordonhart 5mo agoSince it's open weights it'll be available on AWS Bedrock soon(ish), likely at a higher price than the official API but still coming in under those GPT-5-mini prices.
- rohanm93 5mo agoInteresting, thanks. I'll keep an eye out.
- powerapple 5mo agoOpenAI released a privacy filter model https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter . It is small enough to run locally, I would pass my request through it first before sending to any apis.