Even if DeepSeek is better than the American models, I won't be using it unless there is a flat-rate monthly plan. This is only real way it's useful.

If not, the cost outweighs whatever value I might have gotten from it.

lol it doesn't.

I put 10 bucks on DeepSeek almost 3 months ago.

I still have 2 bucks there. I think I used so far something in the vicinity of 300M tokens total.

Even if they double their price it is still cheaper than US models on their flat rate plans, and I don't get locked out for expiring the quota.