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In my (obviously anecdotal) testing, DeepseekV4 Pro was better than Sonnet at coding. However, it is much slower, but also many times cheaper, especially with t
by stavros 6mo ago
In my (obviously anecdotal) testing, DeepseekV4 Pro was better than Sonnet at coding. However, it is much slower, but also many times cheaper, especially with the promotion right now.
- DeathArrow 6mo agoDo they have a coding plan or you only pay per API call?
- trollbridge 6mo agoIt’s just per token, but burning up 100 million+ tokens is a $3 transaction with their pricing right now
- DeathArrow 6mo agoDo you use the official API or another provider?
- stavros 6mo agoI use the official API, OpenRouter somehow didn't use caching and one short session with Qwen cost me $5.
- trollbridge 6mo agoJust directly. Paid for it with PayPal. It’s quite simple to set up and use.
- ReptileMan 6mo agoYou pay per api call but you will be challenged to burn trough 20$ per month. 24/7 usage for single agent will probably cost you around 100$ per month. It is very efficient especially with modern harnesses.
- thejazzman 6mo agoI racked up $30 in 3 days, but I did A LOT of refactoring. Got my projects really buttoned up and now I’m sipping tokens with codex again. Have been more like $1-2/day with deepseek since that initial swarm. With max effort. It’s especially great that you don’t have to worry about hitting your limit and being stalled. I’m using it with Claude