# Reasonix Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/reasonix/ 22 people recommended Reasonix in Hacker News comments, 3 had mixed feelings and 19 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 12 months, in 41 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Recommended for cutting costs of long DeepSeek sessions via cache-friendly design; the most common caveat is a rough terminal interface. Summary written by Claude from 56 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 55 of those comments still count. ## Why people recommend it - Near-free requests from cache hits (9 comments in the sample): "Migrating my workflow to Reasonix with cache hits on Deepseek make requests practically free" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884572)) "Reasonix + Deepseek is mostly cache hits when I let it grind on it for a long time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093062)) "with Reasonix, DeepSeek is free real estate. Seems to just go and go for pennies." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962434)) - Designed around DeepSeek's prefix caching (6 comments in the sample): "Using an agent harness tuned specifically for their caching (Reasonix) pushes the cached tokens to 97-99%" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811401)) "I recommend their Reasonix harness strongly, due to its alignment to DeepSeek's prefix cache" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815221)) "an excellent CLI harness that is designed around maximizing cacheability of DeepSeek models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750973)) - Cheap for heavy use (3 comments in the sample): "I worked all weekend and the past few days, billions of tokens, I still have 3 bucks left!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49278231)) "With reasonix or pi, I can code all day long and pay a few pennies for it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124166)) "it shows how much money you've spent at all times, it's fast" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187265)) - Good for DeepSeek models (3 comments in the sample): "using Deepseek through an American provider with reasonix as the harness" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849204)) "through OpenRouter and Reasonix for pretty much everything" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558416)) "It's probably good, and the best for Deepseek models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261410)) ## What people warn about - Not official; little differentiation (5 comments in the sample): "It's not Deepseek's official harness, and going direct with deepseek using ur own harness is stupid cheap" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972311)) "i cant find anything substantiated in the code that actually differentiates it from any other harness" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260024)) "why would anyone waste time on such 3rd party toy when official one is coming probably in weeks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263464)) - Seen as vibe-coded AI slop (4 comments in the sample): "it contributes to the problem of each person vibe-coding their own, incompatible, half-baked tool in a space" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258718)) "Another day, another vibeslopped "product" on the front page of hacker news with over 200 points." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260326)) "That's the pinnacle of AI slop over engineered garbage in my opinion." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258695)) - Animated typing shifts content (3 comments in the sample): "The animated typing and resulting continuous resize of the example keeps moving the content beneath it down and up." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257555)) "Unusable thanks to the top animation pushing the rest of the site down repeatedly as you’re trying to read." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257993)) "Content continually shifting, super annoying." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263878)) ## Other coding agents people recommend - [Claude Code](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code/): 2558 recommend, 960 mixed, 3101 criticize - [OpenAI Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/codex/): 1670 recommend, 449 mixed, 995 criticize - [OpenCode](https://hackerapproved.com/p/opencode/): 760 recommend, 177 mixed, 484 criticize - [Pi coding agent](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pi/): 707 recommend, 124 mixed, 159 criticize ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Reasonix", https://hackerapproved.com/p/reasonix/ (22 recommend, 3 mixed, 19 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.