It's indeed the latter. Psychologically harder for me than a $20/mo sub but still a better value for the money. I'm finding myself spending closer to $40-$60 a month w/ openrouter without a forced token break.
replyEdit: it looks like it's 75% off right now which is really an incredible deal for such a high caliber frontier model.
Neat, dumb question - are the tokens you prepay for good forever, or do they expire? And do they provide any assurances or SLA's about speed? (i.e. that in a year they won't decide to dole out response tokens to you at a snail's pace)
replyYou can just input your $X per month/week/whatever yourself as API credits
replyYou make your own subscription. If you want to pay $20/month then put $20 into your account. When you use it up, wait till the next month (or buy more).
reply> You make your own subscription.
replyI'm asking because with most providers (most egregiously, with Anthropic) it doesn't work that way because the API pricing is way higher than any subscription and seemingly product/company oriented, whereas individual users can enjoy subsidized tokens in the form of the subscription. If DeepSeek only offers API pricing for everyone, I guess that makes sense and also is okay!
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replyThis account is clearly astroturfing.
replyAlso OpenCode Go quantizes their models pretty aggressively, from what I've heard, to the point of severe lobotomization.
replyThere's no free lunch with these cheap subscription plans IMO.