Author here, good question! I actually didn’t know what model I wanted to use; I had a general idea of “let’s try a Chinese model instead” but didn’t know how Deepseek, Qwen, or any of the other models compared against each other. Deepseek was just the first one I tried.

If I knew from the start which model I would land on I probably would’ve paid for access on their API. But the nice thing with reseller platforms is that I can quickly try out different models for a slight fee added on top, and I think that’s pretty nice given that I don’t know what model is better at any given moment, and because good new models come out all the time from all the different providers.