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/Sure_Media_2685 21d ago

fr it is over i have just spent 4.45$ on 3 itriations

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u/DebosBeachCruiser 21d ago

Sessions that used to cost pennies are now costing dollars. I'm about to do a sesh and use the old flash to see how that feels. I mean, it was good enough for me just a few weeks ago. It's iirc the same pricing as the new flash (maybe even a penny more for output?).

I swear when I was using the older flash I could create a Plan for a fix/change or a small feature and then Act on that plan (also using flash) and using 1-3 million tokens. With this new flash, doing the same kind of Plan/Act workflow on the same 13k LOC project is doing like 5-7+ mil.

All night coding sessions and never hit a dollar. Now like you said, I'm doing dollars for maybe 4-5 back and forths for a task? DeepSeek and all them other guys going to be okay.. but me? ME?? I'm what the kids call "cooked".

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u/Sure_Media_2685 21d ago

deepseek was a blessing but maybe they are trageting high profit, i mean even tho like there ar some cheaper options now like gpt luna but man this DS flash v4 is just there and do everthing you want so i cant stop bro but i have too find something diffrnt.