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by paxys10 hours ago |
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> In the $150/mo range you can get effectively unlimited usage of GPT 5.6 Sol

With 5 active sessions going nonstop? That seems like a pretty important qualifier.

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upvoteby brynnbee9 hours ago|
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Others have said similar but I disagree, I'm spending $200/m and I can easily burn through my weekly quota with a few overnight goals using 5.6 medium.
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upvoteby ElijahLynn7 hours ago|
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Same here with Claude Opus on 20x Max plan. Easy to burn through with 3-5 parallel sessions, each with their own subs going.

Then, once I go over, API pricing racks up FAST!

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upvoteby brynnbee3 hours ago|
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I burned through $100 of credits in literally 40 minutes doing the same long running task I always do.
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upvoteby darkwater9 hours ago|
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And what do you do with all that?
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upvoteby brynnbee3 hours ago|
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I've reverse engineered multiple classic games and turned them into popular, browser-based MMO-like experiences.

I'm also creating a free platform that replaces extremely out-of-date software, some of it only available with mutli-million dollar contracts, to help medical physics professionals with cutting-edge radiotherapy devices used to treat cancer.

https://brynnbateman.com/ for a list of projects

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upvoteby pylotlight3 hours ago|
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Time to make creative software for linux that can replace adobe for Video/photo editing :P
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upvoteby ccakes3 hours ago|
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An MMO of Full Throttle would be amazing!
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upvoteby brynnbee3 hours ago|
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It'd be interesting to see what someone could do to turn a 90s era adventure game into an MMO! I never played the game myself but I think basically any game dev project that modernizes stuff is really neat.
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upvoteby baby_souffle8 hours ago|
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5.6 medium is pretty good at implementing moderately complicated things as long as you've done a good job specking out the types and the API contracts and acceptance criteria.

I can pretty easily burn through my weekly quota over several agent coding hours with minimal supervision when tasked with some pretty large but well-planned refactors.

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upvoteby rain_iwakura10 hours ago|
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not at all true. if you're truly using it across the board for smaller things (translation of pages, filtering of every individual tweet based on its relevance to you etc), the costs ramp up super quickly.

i used for work where i did less and it quickly reaches thousands if you're not careful. i can already see what some will say: skill issue et cetera - whatever.

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upvoteby paxys9 hours ago|
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$100-200/mo is the subscription price. You aren’t going to go over. And you can select smaller models as well. Not everything has to be done by the most expensive one.
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upvoteby janalsncm8 hours ago|
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You just get throttled, which interrupts your whole workflow.
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upvoteby whimblepop9 hours ago|
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I thought it went without saying that GPT 5.6 Sol is the wrong model to use for things like filtering tweets. Apparently not?
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upvoteby nicoburns8 hours ago|
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If you factor in cost then it may well be, but it's definitely the case that the high-end models can get you significantly better results than the cheaper models even for tasks that feel like they should be straightforward.
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upvoteby LaurensBER7 hours ago|
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5 USD is at the "raw" API price.

OpenCode currently offers 60 USD API credits at 10 USD per month (OpenCode Go) and have even doubled it temporarily as a promotion.

Effectively you can get Deepseek for 1/12th the already ridiculous cheap API price.

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upvoteby _aavaa_4 hours ago|
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Those are not at the same price. Opecode’s 60 USD of deepseek usage is charged at much higher rates than what deepseek themselves charge at.
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upvoteby jboss105 hours ago|
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From here, it looks like opencode is hemorrhaging money. I've got a Opencode Zen free account, and I've been using deepseek-v4-flash-free on Pi for a bit, and I haven't hit a limit yet. Sometimes my request fails, but retrys work. I know this is a very cheap model, but it's being given out for free. I assume they might be training on outputs?
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upvoteby _aavaa_9 hours ago|
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I really doubt that the either of the pro plans are subsidized heavily enough to support you swapping v4Flash for Terra, much less Sol.

$5/days is ~330 Mtok/day, that’s a nontrivial amount of work, and none of the gpts are more efficient than deepseek at $/task if deepseek meets your quality bar.

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upvoteby usef-8 hours ago|
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They do give a significant amount more than you would expect from the API pricing. The US provider API pricing has heavy margins by all accounts (and most are short enough of GPUs that there's little incentive to drop).
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upvoteby jmathai9 hours ago|
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The cost per token is super low. If you're used to paying OpenAI or Anthropic API-based fees then the same workload on DeepSeek feels free.
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upvoteby albedoa8 hours ago|
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Ignoring the other side of the equation is a pretty wild thing for you to do here:

> I'm running it in Oh My Pi with a second instance running as "advisor" and even with 5-6 active sessions (effectively 12 streams)

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upvoteby re-thc9 hours ago|
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> In the $150/mo range you can get effectively unlimited usage of GPT 5.6 Sol (Pro plan)

Not true. Sol on XHigh or Max runs out even on the $200/mo plan. It's not close to effectively unlimited. Maybe at 2x the current allowance it can.

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upvoteby surgical_fire9 hours ago|
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$5 a day is pretty extreme in DeepSeek. You really have to abuse it to get anywhere close to it. Maybe something in around hundreds of millions of tokens per day, considering cache hits and all.

And to be frank, it is not that much weaker for regular software development work. I use Claude at work and I see no difference in capability. I only notice a dramatic difference in how much more expensive it is.

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