Check cache hits in your logs. You can use Openrouter or pi config to pin providers with best cache hit rates (or disable ones with the worst).

I use Openrouter for everything except Deepseek. For Deepseek I use their API directly.

There is a 3rd party harness specifically tuned for deepseek (reasonix). Have you tried that?

	▲	Bnjoroge 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		what exactly do they do to "tune" it? It's not Deepseek's official harness, and going direct with deepseek using ur own harness is stupid cheap