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decimalenoughtoday at 12:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

I've switched to non-SOTA models, which deliver comparable value at a fraction of the cost. A full day of coding with Deepseek is approx $1 in tokens, and at least for my use cases the quality is equivalent to Claude.


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profsummergigtoday at 1:38 AM

If you don't mind sharing... what's your preferred vendor for Deepseek

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christophilustoday at 2:29 AM

Hm. I must be holding it wrong. I hit $20 easily in 5 hours with deepseek in opencode.

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