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DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

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Post by Alifatisk »

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DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
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Post by embedding-shape »

I'm not sure you need a "DeepSeek native coding agent" to take advantage of DeepSeeks cache, yesterday as the Codex quota usage issue still wasn't solved for me, I wrote a tiny little bridge so I could use DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex, and seems most of everything I did was basically cached as far as I can tell: https://i.imgur.com/7eKn6wN.png (2026-05-23 Input (Cache hit): 39,123,200 tokens, Input (Cache miss) 1,692,286), and the bridge is doing not special, just massage the DeepSeek API shape into what Codex expects, nothing particular about caching at all.

Besides being even better at the caching, I'm not sure what benefits you'd get compared to just firing up OpenCode with the DeepSeek API yourself, it'll similarly do caching for sure and also "talks directly to api.deepseek.com" if that matters, and you'll get a much more mature harness.

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Post by bwfan123 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #2

I'm not sure you need a "DeepSeek native coding agent" to take advantage of DeepSeeks cache, yesterday as the Codex quota usage issue still wasn't solved for me, I wrote a tiny little bridge so I could use DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex, and seems most of everything I did was basically cached as far as I can tell: https://i.imgur.com/7eKn6wN.png (2026-05-23 Input (Cache hit): 39,123,200 tokens, Input (Cache miss) 1,692,28…

> I wrote a tiny little bridge so I could use DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex

Can you share the bridge. DeepSeek v4 is awesome paired with claude-code or opencode. I found that claude code costs me less than opencode and I am presuming this is due to a better engineered harness.

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Post by himata4113 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #2

I'm not sure you need a "DeepSeek native coding agent" to take advantage of DeepSeeks cache, yesterday as the Codex quota usage issue still wasn't solved for me, I wrote a tiny little bridge so I could use DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex, and seems most of everything I did was basically cached as far as I can tell: https://i.imgur.com/7eKn6wN.png (2026-05-23 Input (Cache hit): 39,123,200 tokens, Input (Cache miss) 1,692,28…

this appears to be native to the terminal, as in, there's no special application that runs or wraps an agent inside a tui. So basically instead of commands you type plain english?

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Post by embedding-shape »

himata4113 wrote: post #6
embedding-shape wrote: post #2

I'm not sure you need a "DeepSeek native coding agent" to take advantage of DeepSeeks cache, yesterday as the Codex quota usage issue still wasn't solved for me, I wrote a tiny little bridge so I could use DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex, and seems most of everything I did was basically cached as far as I can tell: https://i.imgur.com/7eKn6wN.png (2026-05-23 Input (Cache hit): 39,123,200 tokens, Input (Cache miss) 1,692,28…

this appears to be native to the terminal, as in, there's no special application that runs or wraps an agent inside a tui. So basically instead of commands you type plain english?

> this appears to be native to the terminal, as in, there's no special application that runs or wraps an agent inside a tui

Same with codex? codex-rs at least, is a TUI as well, it does run a "app-server" in the background, that the TUI actually interacts with, but that's just an implementation detail. Also makes it easy to hook in your own programs to fire of codex "headless" sessions even without the TUI.

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Post by bwfan123 »

canadiantim wrote: post #4

So what's best low cost coding agent these days? Kimi 2.6? Qwen's latest closed model? Composer 2.5? DeepSeek?

In my experience, it is claude-code paired with deepseek-v4. For penny-pinchers like me, I can have long coding sessions with it with no anxiety about the cost. Also, prompting it to what you want and verifying the outputs is more important than the quality of the model. So, I am better off with a cheaper model and taking the responsibility for prompting it and verifying the results.
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