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aabditoday at 4:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

Competitive with opus 4.8 but weaker than sol or fable. About 20x cheaper.


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xyneliustoday at 5:20 PM

If that wasn't impressive enough, it's actually ~60x cheaper if you take into account the typical cache-read/input/output split in agentic coding, and the deep discount for cache reads offered by DeepSeek. Opencode has some public data on the typical split [1]:

For DeepSeek V4 Pro the typical split is 750 in, 290 out, 82k cached.

Cost per request for V4 Pro: $0.000875 per request.

Equivalent Opus cost (w/o taking into account cache write costs): $0.052 per request.

[1] https://opencode.ai/docs/go/#usage-limits

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JacobAsmuthtoday at 5:06 PM

Per token. You need to look at pricing per task.

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swiftcodertoday at 4:36 PM

How does it stack against the updated Deepseek Flash version?

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