alt Hacker NewsAlso they have a pretty big token discount running this month: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/
Even without the discount, I'll have to think about whether I need the 100 EUR tier of Anthropic Max, or whether downgrading to Pro and using DeepSeek is good enough. And they're also up on OpenRouter and other places.
Been using those models, not quite comparable with Opus 4.6/4.7 but with max reasoning, pretty good for a variety of dev tasks! Only big problem is no ability to process images, so can't really do browser use for some semi-automated testing, I'd have to write Playwright tests even when I don't want to.
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I've been using Deepseek 4 Pro (instead of Sonnet 4.6) as the developer LLM (Opus is the planner) and it's been great. Not super fast, with all the reasoning, but has been writing good code, and I think I paid $5 so far (whereas with Sonnet I'd have run out of the weekly limits on Max for weeks now).
Definitely recommended, though it's crucial that you have GPT 5.5 review the code afterwards.
I've been using OpenCode Go ($10/month) for personal projects (I have Claude subscription for $DAYJOB) and for the tinkering around that I do for myself the quality of the open weight models and the limits of the OpenCode plan are sufficient. I agree that for a lot of dev tasks they're quite good!