You can specify the provider on Openrouter to only use Deepseek and get the cheaper pricing.
replyBut worse data retention and training policy. It’s a balance.
replyIt can't see images so it doesn't do everything Sonnet will do. Still a good deal though.
replyCould you please clarify exactly what you mean?
replyIf you look at openrouter for Deepseek model providers that does not use your data to train, it’s still significantly cheaper than Anthropic pricing. The Pro and Flash performs closely to Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.6 respectively (though no vision capability which is a fair thing another user called out). The pricing of Pro is close to Haiku. The pricing of Flash is 10X cheaper. To put into perspective, you can have Sonnet 4.6 capabilities at 10X cheaper than Haiku even without “Chinese government subsidies”.
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