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In my (obviously anecdotal) testing, DeepseekV4 Pro was better than Sonnet at coding. However, it is much slower, but also many times cheaper, especially with the promotion right now.

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Do they have a coding plan or you only pay per API call?

It’s just per token, but burning up 100 million+ tokens is a $3 transaction with their pricing right now

Do you use the official API or another provider?

I use the official API, OpenRouter somehow didn't use caching and one short session with Qwen cost me $5.

Just directly. Paid for it with PayPal. It’s quite simple to set up and use.

You pay per api call but you will be challenged to burn trough 20$ per month. 24/7 usage for single agent will probably cost you around 100$ per month. It is very efficient especially with modern harnesses.

I racked up $30 in 3 days, but I did A LOT of refactoring. Got my projects really buttoned up and now I’m sipping tokens with codex again. Have been more like $1-2/day with deepseek since that initial swarm. With max effort.

It’s especially great that you don’t have to worry about hitting your limit and being stalled.

I’m using it with Claude

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