And OpenRouter isn't a subscription.

With all due respect (not that I feel like much is due after that response) I am not really sure you know what I am talking about. I'm talking about inference providers, like inference.net, Fireworks, Coreweave, Digital Ocean, etc, to use DeepSeek 4.1 Flash. They didn't create the model, they just are charging you to run inference tasks. That is a different story.

DeepSeek themselves are honest about the fact that they train on inputs by default. You won't hit DeepSeek if you use OpenRouter with ZDR enabled.

I now have two people with sarcastic replies that seem to think I'm talking about OpenAI. We're talking about DeepSeek on third party providers. Given that this thread is neither that long nor that confusing, I'm not sure how people are getting lost this quickly.

I don't really trust OpenAI, although honestly I find it stupid to suggest they'd offer a ZDR policy and violate it. They literally don't have to offer it. People will still pay. Fable doesn't offer ZDR at all and it hasn't stopped people from paying through the nose for it at API pricing.