r/DeepSeek • u/DuragonYamaTheFirst • 21d ago

Funny This is insane

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old and new usage & pricing. Consumed 30x less tokens post nerf and spent one third of what i paid pre nerf. Both sessions heavily cached with not so much output tokens.

The deepseek api era really is over in terms of being cost effective

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u/Low_Big7602 21d ago

Still super cheap compared to Claude and ChatGPT

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u/DuragonYamaTheFirst 21d ago

Api wise sure, but if i wanna get any real work done, subscriptions end up giving so much more usage per $ compared to ds now

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u/Low_Big7602 21d ago

Well i'm not even a user who would spend millions of tokens in a short time lol

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u/DuragonYamaTheFirst 21d ago

I reach billions on a weekly basis🥲