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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 intuxikated »

rane wrote: post #81
wolttam wrote: post #58

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The value of Claude Code the harness isn't that great. There's a lot of other good harnesses out there.

I thought so, and then I tried Opencode and Codex and started to appreciate Claude Code a lot more. They've actually done great work with the small details.

I actually have't looked back since trying opencode The ability to properly see what the agent is doing in tool calls and subagents is really unmatched, CC strips all reasoning and return values, only displaying tool calls, and you're unable to expand a single subagent, it's expand everything and scroll endlessly or show everything collapsed with basically no info at all (read x files, ran x commands) Just seems like extremely basic features are missing

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by intuxikated »

wg0 wrote: post #13

If you have not tried DeepdeekV4 you're missing out. The pricing makes it unbelievably good. The chains of thought for Deepseek are very very interesting reads. Open code won't show them but do read them and you'll be surprised at how underrated the model is. My model usage is very low but I still do pay directly to Deepseek regularly as my tribute and contribution to them open sourcing their models as my gratitude a…

Reasoning display can be toggled in opencode

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by cosmojg »

ux266478 wrote: post #142
abyssin wrote: post #47

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It’s good and cheap, but don’t talk about politics to it or it might trigger some sort of censorship rule. You can see it think, then suddenly erase everything and suggest to switch to another subject, without explaining anything. I also had it output some sort of generic message about how the news outlets are in the service of the people. Both times I was surprised because I didn’t make any sensitive requests, neith…

The base model doesn't have these problems FWIW

How are you running the base model?

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by spudlyo »

I use it with Pi and with Gptel and I'm extremely happy about the price. The speed of deepseek-v4-pro though leaves something to be desired. I do love how detailed its chain of thought reasoning is, and it's pretty wild watching it think at ~2400 baud. It much more transparent than Gemini 3.5 flash in that regard, but maybe 4-5x slower? For my Latin language morphology and linguistic tasks it seems to be up to the job, and on the plus side I can analyze a handful of sentences parallel without worrying about breaking the bank.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by jijji »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #63
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...

That's interesting. I thought Claude Code is not as good, therefore people want to use Claude model with other alternatives. This is the other way around. Which begs the question, regardless of the model, which Claude Code alternative is better? (I keep saying "Claude Code alternative" because I don't know the term... LLM CLI?)

I've seen good results with opencode connected to glm 5.1 on ollama cloud... for $20 a month you get similar performance that you get with opus 4.7

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by ux266478 »

cosmojg wrote: post #173
ux266478 wrote: post #142

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The base model doesn't have these problems FWIW

How are you running the base model?

vLLM in a docker container, FP16 quantized on an 8x MI300X cluster. Very lazy hackjob, I didn't even set up an interface. Was constructing curl commands from string templates. I worked out if I paid that compute cost over a whole month, it was twice as expensive as the monthlies you'd pay for owning a very nice 2000sqft non-coop apartment in Midtown Manhattan. I was paying rock bottom prices, too.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by brianwawok »

schaefer wrote: post #97
apitman wrote: post #51

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

> What's the best way to use it with Pi, OpenRouter? I can't claim it's "the best"... But the Pi.dev and OpenRouter combo is what I'm doing at home, and I love it. Setup was easy, I can use /model to switch between any of the openrouter models and whatever I'm hosting locally via VLLM.

Open router is a 5% tax? If you use it seriously may as well skip it

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by vinhnx »

alyxya wrote: post #11

Once they have their own coding agent which they seem to be working towards, I may start predominantly using their models. They seem to be doing all the "right" things, open sourcing models, publishing research, and keeping prices low for everyone.

You can use DeepSeek with my coding agent VT Code. Recently I've added DeepSeek V4 Pro and DeepSeek V4 Flash support with all providers, via: Official DeepSeek API, HuggingFace, Ollama Cloud, OpenRouter providers.

> https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by mvanbaak »

mewse-hn wrote: post #100
thisisit wrote: post #60

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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.

I was looking into something similar because I wanted to test a local model for doing basic coding and smart model (deepseek) for planning. It's basically not possible with claude code, the api endpoint is a single environment variable and whatever models are on that endpoint are what's available. HOWEVER, if you run a proxy like LiteLLM, you can configure it to send requests to different api endpoints on the back en…

Check out the project called superpowers. It can use different models for different agents. I use it witb opencode to have different models for reaearch, planning, execution, testing etc
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