[jbellis]

and all of them are so much more expensive than OG deepseek as to completely remove themselves from consideration

you should probably use grok 3 mini if you want "cheapest model that is reasonably good at code"

[aitchnyu]

The above link disproves your "more expensive than OG deepdeek"

[jbellis]

Only if you can't read. DSv3 is 4x cheaper than the cheapest option in that link during US business hours.