alt Hacker NewsPaying by the token is a much more expensive way of doing it than signing up for the various coding plans when you need them.
Paying by the token is a much more expensive way of doing it than signing up for the various coding plans when you need them.
Not if the models are way cheaper. For many tasks you can do with DeepSeek Flash, and for more gnarly problems you switch to GLM or Kimi. But sure, if you do everything in large models like Kimi K3 or GLM it gets expensive quickly.