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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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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.

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?

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Maybe the Chinese are playing the long game by trying to bankrupt the US competition? Because there's no way this is financially viable.

If you think heavily subsidizing AI models isn’t financially viable, I have some bad news for you about US AI companies.

Deepseek has made some incredible advancements in model efficiency, and more importantly actually publishes those advancements so everyone can benefit from them.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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I just canceled Claude Code and Codex today.

RIP.

Claude literally refuses to finish tasks in auto mode and just keeps saying, now is a good stopping point, when it's 1% done (and doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I tell it).

Codex is barely better...

May as well pay 1/20th the price for DeepSeek.

Claude seems to have something that looks at how long you've been a customer and then just massively degrades quality.

When I started my subscription, Claude had none of these problems.

2 months into subscriptions Claude is completely unusable garbage, and Codex is not much better.

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Props to them. That makes DeepSeek v4 Pro extremely cheap compared to others, even in the same category. Look at these prices per million outputs tokens: DeepSeek V4 Pro: $0.87 Qwen 3.7 Max: $7.50 Grok 4.3: $2.50 GLM 1.5: $3.08 Opus 4.7: $25.00 GPT-5.5: $30.00

*GLM 5.1

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Surprised Anthropic hasn't done anything to restrict Claude Code from using other providers.

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

Re: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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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 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.
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