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

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

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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?

I've gone through ~600m tokens in Xiaomi Mimo though Claude, and it's been the most effective use of an agent I've had yet. It's very capable, but generally not ambitious, picking simple but effective solutions to most problems I give it. Going to write something longer about the experience when I get to a billion tokens.

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

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Post by gandreani »

passive wrote: post #15
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?

I've gone through ~600m tokens in Xiaomi Mimo though Claude, and it's been the most effective use of an agent I've had yet. It's very capable, but generally not ambitious, picking simple but effective solutions to most problems I give it. Going to write something longer about the experience when I get to a billion tokens.

Are you using Mimo 2.5 pro?

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

bwfan123 wrote: post #5
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.

Sure, keep in mind it's a steaming pile of hacked together hacks, probably won't work in every case, doesn't support every feature that should be supported (like parallel tool calling, both Codex + DeepSeek API support it), and it might make your computer catch on fire: https://gist.github.com/embedding-shapes/eab3e63e5a95d3d78a2...

I only used it for a few hours to play around with stuff before the quota issue was fixed and I could resume using GPT models, and the bridge was coded by DeepSeek-V4-Flash-IQ2XXS + DwarfStar4 locally, I take no responsibility for what might happen with your computer or you, during usage or just reading the code.

Edit: heh, like don't look at line 117 for example where seemingly it likes to handle misspellings in the .env file which totally wasn't my fault for typo'ing the API key in that file... I'm sure there are tons of sharp edges and dumb stuff in there.

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

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Post by stavros »

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?

For me, it's by far Deepseek. It's many times cheaper than competitors, and about as good as Sonnet 4.6.
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