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Who do you buy DeepSeek from? I bought it through OpenRouter and used it with Pi agent. The model was good, but there appeared to be a pricing glitch or somet

Who do you buy DeepSeek from? I bought it through OpenRouter and used it with Pi agent. The model was good, but there appeared to be a pricing glitch or something, because it burned through $50 in under an hour on pretty trivial stuff. Pi agent claimed it only used like $1. OpenRouter claimed differently and said I used all $50.

XCSme 3mo ago
I use it through OpenRouter via Kilo Code VS Code extension. You can check the logs in OpenRouter and see which providers it used and how many tokens you used.
matusnovak 3mo ago
You can directly from https://platform.deepseek.com/ https://platform.deepseek.com/
try-working 3mo ago
sounds like a caching issue, and maybe other issues too
kmarc 3mo ago
I can highly recommend OpenCode Go. I use it from pi.dev as well through the OpenCode Go $10 subscription ($5 first month). Used more than 20M tokens at a cost of ~$20 (up to $60 is included in the $5 plan) Out of which deepseek pro had ~200 messages which is around 1.5M tokens (10+M cached)
- versteegen 3mo ago
  BTW the quotas for Go have very recently changed, now only $15 for some models instead of $60. Which is not actually a difference for DS4 Pro, because they lowered the token pricing 4x at the same time (to match the change in official pricing from DeepSeek months ago)
- h2aichat 3mo ago
  It is great when the task is medium, but with complex tasks Opus 4.8 is better
paweladamczuk 3mo ago
Check cache hits in your logs. You can use Openrouter or pi config to pin providers with best cache hit rates (or disable ones with the worst). I use Openrouter for everything except Deepseek. For Deepseek I use their API directly.
- throwa356262 3mo ago
  There is a 3rd party harness specifically tuned for deepseek (reasonix). Have you tried that?
  - Bnjoroge 3mo ago
    what exactly do they do to "tune" it? It's not Deepseek's official harness, and going direct with deepseek using ur own harness is stupid cheap
lofaszvanitt 3mo ago
Why do you even need openrouter as a middle man?

XCSme 3mo ago

I use it through OpenRouter via Kilo Code VS Code extension. You can check the logs in OpenRouter and see which providers it used and how many tokens you used.

matusnovak 3mo ago

You can directly from https://platform.deepseek.com/ https://platform.deepseek.com/

try-working 3mo ago

sounds like a caching issue, and maybe other issues too

kmarc 3mo ago

I can highly recommend OpenCode Go. I use it from pi.dev as well through the OpenCode Go $10 subscription ($5 first month). Used more than 20M tokens at a cost of ~$20 (up to $60 is included in the $5 plan) Out of which deepseek pro had ~200 messages which is around 1.5M tokens (10+M cached)

versteegen 3mo ago
BTW the quotas for Go have very recently changed, now only $15 for some models instead of $60. Which is not actually a difference for DS4 Pro, because they lowered the token pricing 4x at the same time (to match the change in official pricing from DeepSeek months ago)
h2aichat 3mo ago
It is great when the task is medium, but with complex tasks Opus 4.8 is better

paweladamczuk 3mo ago

Check cache hits in your logs. You can use Openrouter or pi config to pin providers with best cache hit rates (or disable ones with the worst). I use Openrouter for everything except Deepseek. For Deepseek I use their API directly.

throwa356262 3mo ago
There is a 3rd party harness specifically tuned for deepseek (reasonix). Have you tried that?
- Bnjoroge 3mo ago
  what exactly do they do to "tune" it? It's not Deepseek's official harness, and going direct with deepseek using ur own harness is stupid cheap

lofaszvanitt 3mo ago

Why do you even need openrouter as a middle man?