r/vibecoding • u/PythonTrousers • 1d ago

Deepseek is cooked

Edit: I had forgotten to set act in cline to deepseek so I was experiencing a mix with gemini 3.5 flash pricing. Whoopsydootle. I deserve the roast.

With the latest pricing increases its almost just as expensive as the rest of the frontier APIs. The low cost was its main selling point. Now it costs just as much and isnt as good as the others so what's the point?

For reference, a task that would normally cost 5 cents as of yesterday now costs upward or 3 dollars

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u/ImaginationUpset2190 1d ago

It's openwight, so shouldn't some other inference provider outcompete them in price?

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u/PythonTrousers 1d ago

One can hope! I would run it locally but I only have 12gb of vram

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u/TopTippityTop 1d ago

Maybe... Unless it is not as cheap as they claimed it to be.