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While it's a common tactic, and I'd vouch for it if you don't really know what you want to code in fact, but if you know what you want to get out of it, I haven't found anything I'd need opus 5.5 for instead of deepseek-flash (flash v4.1 hosted via platform.deepseek.com)

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genuine question: is there an improvement in using platform deepseek com, over openrouter and a third party provider?

Potentially higher cache hit rate at the expense of your data being kept for training.

platform deepseek com's tos enforces use all your data on training, which is a major set back for me.

Other than that, I think they are cheaper last time I compared.

So you don't want the model to be better yet you continue to reuse it?... I find this kind of selfish behaviour increasing within us developers, like a fear of avoiding the inevitable

Do you use Mistral's models to help improve the European offering?

Otherwise if you don't care about your data being used in training you might as well use the best, which is the US models on a subscription plan. If you do care, use downloadable weight models served by reputable providers, or selfhost.

Yes, openrouter providers are all over the place (in a bad way): https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/

I've experienced this firsthand and now I generally pin to providers that I trust on openrouter, or just pony up and pay for the real thing.

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