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Leynostoday at 2:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Deepseek v4 Pro is like Opus 4.5 or GPT 5.2, but costs pennies on the pound for API. Which is to say, I should definitely be using it more to let my Codex and Claude subs go further.


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jnovektoday at 3:00 PM

Opus 4.5 was definitely stronger than DeepSeek V4 for me, specifically with large context.

I’m being pedantic/splitting hairs, though. I’ve obviously switched to DeepSeek full-time because it makes more sense to me pragmatically — I spend a few more tokens to get the outcome I want, but the tokens are cheap as dirt and the API is faster.

Perhaps I should plug it into Claude Code and see how it performs? I haven’t tried that.