this is the pitch - it's open source, run it yourself. But >99% of people will not have the hardware needed to run these models at a high enough quality to be close to SOTA. So they will run the open-source models on CCP systems for a good price.

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2ndorderthought an hour ago | parent [-]

What I mean is you can use providers who also host deepseek models for pennies without touching deepseek itself.

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iosjunkie an hour ago | parent [-]

I’m only seeing 3x the cost of DeepSeek for other providers on Open Router. Is there a better place to look?

	▲	2ndorderthought an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I haven't really had this issue but deepinfra claims to have us servers and looks pretty cheap to me.