DeepSeek API

“the API prices are very low. So much that it is hard to spend over 20 dollars per month as an individual”

“Those were provably Claude Fable's responses being returned by the DeepSeek API.”

“DeepSeek their cache handeling is S-tier (with a ton of features, for instance 24h caching).”

“it took couple of top-ups for me to realize that it wasn't the budget-king anymore”

“platform deepseek com's tos enforces use all your data on training, which is a major set back for me.”

“You can use the models I mentioned directly from DeepSeek, Meta and Xiaomi and not exceed $40.”

“I feel like API model providers should lean towards not swapping out models on their paying customers”

“DeepSeek API also has far better inference speed and reliability than the cheapest providers.”

“One of the best things about Deepseek is that you can host it yourself and get a ridiculous multiple of usage for what the same dollar amount would yield from their API”

“I've never had that experience in the last months of quite intensive use of the official deepseek api.”

“I still haven't came across any decent model that is <$0.01/MTok cache costs apart from deepseek thru their official API”

“The cache discount for deepseek is the highest by far, it is the cache that makes the official API so cheap”

“I don't like it when a company essentially go through my history, train with it”

“This actually works out favorably for US customers since the peak hours are Chinese working hours and cheap hours are US working hours.”

“DeekSeek did a strategic b2c mistake. It is always easier to start with higher prices and give discounts than go opposite way (=raise).”

“Did not find any provider that had a cache hit rate anywhere close to DeepSeeks own API.”

“Currently burning money quickly on official deepseek api. They are also increasing pricing starting today.”

“I'd really rather just pay Deepseek directly. Why wouldn't I want to support the company that trained the model?”

“But without the downsides like daily or weekly limits and guaranteed upfront/fixed spend.”

“Deepseeks secret sauce is the incredibly cheap caching (magnitude cheaper than other providers).”

“Even if they double their price it is still cheaper than US models on their flat rate plans”

“No one could predict what will happen tomorrow and how high the price would bump to.”

“Going directly though DeepSeek's API and hitting all day long with light/medium tasks I'm at $5/month.”

“Anyone that values their online freedom won't want DeepSeek becoming popular or use it for anything important.”

“Yes all of it goes straight to China! All of it is also open source or source available, or will be in the future.”

“sending at least snippets/chunks of code to a server where it is subject to Chinese government data access laws”

“I have one of my projects on DeepSeek and it blows my mind how I can use tens of millions of tokens for pennies.”

“The issue for me is the data privacy if you're using their hosted prices, because you cannot opt out of data collection”

“They're also cheap enough that it's unlikely you'll find a much better deal on those models.”

“I'm seeing something like 80% cached tokens, which makes using DeepSeek cheaper than damned near any other model anywhere near its size”

“On multiple occasions I have gotten cache hits resuming a session from the previous day.”

“I've burnt 287 million tokens in the last couple of days, costing me a whopping $5.77 USD.”

“Deepseek shines for personal usage because it's possible to use it however you want and whenever you want with no session/weekly limits stress”

“DeepSeek charges $0.87 per million output tokens compared to $50 for Fable and $30 for GPT-5.5”

“they are much cheaper and the limits are much higher, so you get more work out of it for less money”

“the DeepSeek API seems to be really good at caching and their cached input price is more heavily discounted than most providers”

“I ran something like 5 billion tokens through them directly recently without any bumps in the road.”

“It's especially great that you don't have to worry about hitting your limit and being stalled.”

“the official DeepSeek API makes no guarantees of data privacy even for paying users.”

“if you ran it constantly you'd still be under what OpenAI or Anthropic charge for a coding plan”