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DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by wyre »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #99
zozbot234 wrote: post #77

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The nice thing about hosting inference locally is that you can be sure you're not being rug-pulled in any way. This doesn't really help China 'win' though, it's just freeloading on them making their weights openly available.

The good thing is, we're only 2.5 years away from a top of the line MacBook having better local inference than CC Opus does today. That's more than good enough if you're actually getting what CC Opus is capable of. I've never been so excited for the future.

How expensive is ram and SSDs going to be in 2.5 years? A top of the line macbook is already $10k and thats when Apple was able to purchase ram and SSds for a fraction of what is being sold for now.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by Aldipower »

Phelinofist wrote: post #116
belinder wrote: post #7

Anyone using deepseek through a gateway (not sure if right term) so there's no data retention? At work we're going through a few hundred million tokens a day in our app (using anthropic models), and we're looking for something significantly cheaper

Yep, I use Cortecs - https://cortecs.ai/ "Europe's LLM ROUTER"

Using Cortecs.ai too in combination with DS4Pro and Mistral Viba as harness, but unfortunately DS4 on Cortecs is the opposite of cheap. So I just use it for privacy centric tasks.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by stavros »

rjh29 wrote: post #102
ammar_x wrote: post #27

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You can use V4 Pro with Claude Code [1]. I tried it and it's impressive. [1]: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

How does the cost compare using the API vs the $20/month plans with other providers? I did some back of the envelope calculations and it seems like you would pay $5/month using DeepSeek directly or $15-20 with OpenRouter or similar. But would be interested to hear real world usage.

I've been using it pretty extensively over a month and I'm at maybe $7. It thinks for quite a while, but the results have been better than Sonnet for me.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by WarmWash »

doctoboggan wrote: post #31

I am more worried about accidental data leak (agent reading env file for example) with the Chinese hosted models compared to the US hosted models. Am I wrong to suspect that the Chinese government might be more likely to scan all chats and save useful information compared to the US government or company? I hesitated to even post this comment as it sounds biased and xenophobic. I would love for someone to convince me…

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Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by lofaszvanitt »

apitman wrote: post #51
lambda wrote: post #12

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Why do you need them to provide a coding agent? Just use their model with any off the shelf coding agent. I happen to prefer Pi, but use whatever works for you.

What's the best way to use it with Pi, OpenRouter?

Qwen cli

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by lofaszvanitt »

WarmWash wrote: post #164
doctoboggan wrote: post #31

I am more worried about accidental data leak (agent reading env file for example) with the Chinese hosted models compared to the US hosted models. Am I wrong to suspect that the Chinese government might be more likely to scan all chats and save useful information compared to the US government or company? I hesitated to even post this comment as it sounds biased and xenophobic. I would love for someone to convince me…

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Ye but they are on aws.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by longsword »

thisisit wrote: post #60
ammar_x wrote: post #27

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You can use V4 Pro with Claude Code [1]. I tried it and it's impressive. [1]: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

I am curious - Is there a way to switch between models depending on the task? Because I believe Deepseek V4 is not multimodal and it will be good to switch back to Claude if vision or other capabilities are required.

There is a tool called deepclaude, which runs a proxy in the background capable of doing this, by simply doing /model in Claude.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by vitaflo »

tacone wrote: post #79

TIL I might be able to use DeepSeek directly from VS Copilot https://github.com/Vizards/deepseek-v4-for-copilot (disclaimer: I have to try it yet).

Deepseek has instructions on how to do this on their website (along with many other agents):

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by jorl17 »

I've been extremely impressed with DeepSeek V4 flash.

We've been working on a project which can be thought of as an agent, just not for coding. So we've been building everything: agents, sub-agents, RAG, dynamic intent detection, changing models based on what's being done, etc. In our tests, DeepSeek V4-flash is the cheapest model with acceptable replies (few hallucinations, while finding the right information). It's not the cheapest one we run overall (we're actually surviving with 3B models for some tasks), but it's definitely the one powering the system and driving the main "agent".

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