Deepseek v4 pro is definitely my preferred cheap model, it's very good, and I use it all the time for my personal projects (opencode go plan), but I also use Claude Opus all the time at work and Deepseek is not as good as that, but it does compete with Sonnet for capability, and beats it on price.

I have unlimited Claude Opus at work and it’s wonderful. Not allozwed to use it for personal use though.

So I use Deepseek Pro on the $20 Ollama Cloud plan and it’s really not that far behind and I never triggered the plan’s limits.

It’s like 10-15% less powerful but costs 10 times less.

Totally worth it. I prefer Opus because my employer pays for it but I would personally never pay 10 times more for it.