I’ve been using deepseek and it works great for my problems. An expensive day is when I spend $7 in tokens, and that takes lots of queries. Openrouter doesn’t give you the cache discount I think, which is really important.

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irthomasthomas 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why on earth would you use openrouter for this? The cache discount for deepseek is the highest by far, it is the cache that makes the official API so cheap, even after the recent price rise.

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hiq 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I didn't know about this limitation from openrouter, and I thought plenty of users were using it to quickly switch as needed without incurring such a penalty. Why does there seem to be so many users then? Are some folks just fine paying multiples of what they could?

	▲	irthomasthomas 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I really don't know. It was built before prompt caching was common, and the switching cost was much lower.

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nsoonhui 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's strange. For Deepseek I burnt through USD 5 on a relatively simple task, in one afternoon. That the simple task took a whole afternoon, a lot of baby sitting, the slowness, and so much money relatively, really shook me to the core.

	▲	seanmcdirmid 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What was the tax? You were using v4 flash right? What thinking setting were you using? I’m pretty happy with it, it’s about as good as Gemini flash 3.5, the only other model I have deep experience with.