alt Hacker Newswhen something is that cheap, just remember, you're giving something valuable to the people selling you that thing
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Not necessarily, you can buy low priced Deepseek inference also from many services that guarantee ZDR and GDPR compliance. My personal rule is: Never buy inference from those who also train models, because they have an inherent incentive to abuse your data to train their models.
Or, when something is that cheap, it's going to take multiple tries to get it right anyway, so you might as well build that into the cost.
If it's not cheap you might be doing the same thing ...
No, it's open source and is actually cheap to run, while performing the same, which is why it is being run and provided by 31 different providers for Openrouter.
Given its open weight you can actually calculate the cost of running it and see if that makes sense to you or not. There is a whole ecosystem of providers serving deepseek models at the same low price, hosted in the US or the EU, with zero data retention terms.
Just an unrelated PSA that Anthropic trains on your Claude code sessions unless you disable it:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms