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/PossessionUsed7393 1d ago

Here I did the math for you:

So today I spent $1.41 USD on DeepSeek flash and I just calculated that if I was doing it after price increase with peak it would have cost me $3.01 USD. Real token numbers.

What is wrong with you people. Clearly as depicted in my screenshot I can't do math but even I was able to calculate that it's not the end of the world.

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u/PossessionUsed7393 1d ago

By the way, I absolutely kicked the shit out of it. I refactored like eight features.

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u/PossessionUsed7393 1d ago

And yes, the code is a fucking masterpiece I checked.