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DeepSeek V4 Flash is the "too cheap to meter" of AI. And you can run the full unquantized model locally for $8000 (2x DGX Spark) at full 1M context and decent speeds: https://github.com/elsung/dgx-spark-deepseek-v4-flash#-long-...
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The Deepseek official API is good with excellent caching.

But their privacy policy is unusually bad - they can train off your prompts and completions.

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Use another provider from OpenRouter.

I really don’t care if they train off my prompts.

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Deepseek seems to have gotten too cheap. I have been using it for a long time and it's at a point now where my credits balance barely moves even at max setting.
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What's the new pricing?

The prices on OpenRouter still look the same.

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yup :)

i'm doing opencode <-> openrouter <-> official deepseek api (i don't get the opencode hate, i like it)

how are you doing it?

am also using Kimi K3 via kimi-code

and also GLM 5.2 via ZCode

happy with all three, they're trailing frontier but i figure if i'm running GNU/Linux then i ought to favour open weights models with my €s -- reduced my usage of claude/gpt to the ~$20 tier just to keep abreast of claude_code/codex developments

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> i don't get the opencode hate, i like it

When the company I work for was evaluating it, there were multiple rough points. Their terms and conditions allowed training on prompts, the default behavior was to route prompts to their servers for conversation summary/labeling. One of their lead maintainers is also super toxic on many issues.

Sorry this is all baseless with no links, I’m on my phone and locating those issues again isn’t something I have time for.

It’s a good tool I just don’t like the privacy policies nor maintainers attitudes.

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What is the new price through?
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https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

edit: there are banner announcements saying v4 flash pricing will increase first then overall by an undetermined amount

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i dont see any price increase there... what am i missing?
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It's a big confusion, some[0] say an email was sent about significant price increase, personal I haven't seen anything official

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/deepseek-pl...

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The email is real, I received it from DeepSeek itself. I probably received it because I buy tokens directly from them.

No actual price increase however.

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Right below the pricing it is stated that they plan to increase the prices in the near future.
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"near future" is not "today"
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isn't it the same old pricing? did they increase V4 Pro pricing already?
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