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We're using deepseek with the idea that we would switch to something better when more of our customers are using the ai features but it ends up deepseek is awes
by comrade1234 3mo ago
We're using deepseek with the idea that we would switch to something better when more of our customers are using the ai features but it ends up deepseek is awesome for what we're doing and so we probably won't switch because it's so much cheaper.
The ai libraries we use let us switch models with just a configuration change.
- brandon272 3mo agoWhere is your DeepSeek model hosted?
- comrade1234 3mo agoDeepseek directly but we can switch to openrouter and a USA host at any time. Again it's just a configuration value - no code changes.
- x313 3mo agoSimilar story here. DS models are absurdly good value for mid-end tasks. I've found DSv4 Flash to be ~10% the cost of GPT-5.4-mini/Claude Haiku at similar performance. We used to pay OpenAI >1m$/month for fraud classification, NER, etc. Sadly the US companies no longer care about non-coding-agent uses. I imagine uptake will continue to increase as the corporate infra improves. Right now it's still bad - for example, AWS Bedrock is awful, models are months late and implemented with basic errors. Google Vertex is even worse. Finding a decent provider is the hardest part.
- comrade1234 3mo agoYeah we don't use it for coding either. Basically text analysis within specific constraints. It works beyond my expectations.