In my opinion, for the vast majority of use cases, DeepSeek is still the most cost-effective model by a mile. $10 feels like it lasts forever.

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SwellJoe 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep, with Reasonix, DeepSeek is free real estate. Seems to just go and go for pennies.

And, DeepSeek is what I use for any task that works best with an API. It's cheap enough to where I don't think about cost, made even cheaper by DeepSeek having the most effective and cheap caching in the industry, and it's good enough to where I rarely have to follow up with a more expensive model or manually fix things. It's been alleged they're releasing an update to DeepSeek V4 Pro soon that improves it, which likely makes it a good fit for even more kinds of problems. It remains my favorite of the Chinese models, it's so cheap and cheerful. And, is also less aggressively censored than some of them.

	▲	ignoramous 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> It's cheap enough to where I don't think about cost, made even cheaper by DeepSeek having the most effective and cheap caching in the industry I use DeepSeek v4 Flash & MiMo v2.5 Pro. Prefer the latter over DeepSeek v4 Pro because it costs the same while being equally good & less chattier for coding workloads. Although, I've begun experimenting with Hy3 (as an in-between Flash & Pro) & GLM 5.2 (for long-horizon tasks).