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results comparable to gpt 5.6 luna but cheaper promising!
by tosh 3mo ago
results comparable to gpt 5.6 luna but cheaper
promising!
- minimaxir 3mo agoSince the x-axis is log-scaled, DeepSeek is much cheaper than visually implied (mousing over the raw values, it's 1/4th the cost of Luna).
- literallyroy 3mo agoIs this pricing from Deepseek with training on usage?
- minimaxir 3mo agoPer the announcement tweet, BaseTen was the inference provider which has 20% cache cost that is typical: https://www.baseten.co/library/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/ https://www.baseten.co/library/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/
- literallyroy 3mo agoAh thanks. That looks like 10x cost on cache reads vs Deepseek as the provider: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#providers https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#provid...
- LUmBULtERA 3mo agoIs it still cheaper than Luna if using an OpenAI subscription? My gut is no, but I have not done the math.
- minimaxir 3mo agoEverything is cheaper if using a subscription, but some applications require API usage.
- swiftcoder 3mo agoYou'd have to compare against something like the OpenCode Go subscription, and I'm fairly sure deepseek napkins out cheaper in that scenario
- LUmBULtERA 3mo agoI'm still not sure, there's a promo going on now, but generally Go gives $60 of API credit and right now it might be $120 with deepseek. But $20/month OpenAI subscription I believe gives you many hundreds of API-equivalent usage? I've heard $100/month giving many thousands API-equivalent per month.
- K0IN 3mo agoSome china proxies charge as little as 1 cent / Mio tokens for luna, which I use. As far as I know they bundle multiple codex subscriptions to get subsidized token pricings, so in codex it should be.
- jrflo 3mo agoMight not actually be that much cheaper, we don't know what margin OpenAI is charging on Luna API. Open models likely have much less margin.