alt Hacker News>The latest deepseek v4 pro model is 2-5x cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6. Cursor's Compose 2.5 that was just recently released is 6x cheaper than Sonnet.
The only way you're running Deepseek V4 with comparable quality/performance is through OpenRouter, at which point you're still susceptible to being price gouged in the future, or by spending >$20k on hardware.
There is still a difference though. If some company decides to raise prices on OR, you can just switch to any other provider of the same model since there is no moat.