[Aeolun]

> Deepseek on openrouter is still 25x cheaper than claude

Is it? Or only when you don’t factor in Claude cached context? I’ve consistently found it pointless to use open models because the price of the good ones is so close to cached context on Claude that I don’t need them.

[joefourier]

Deepseek via their API also has cached context, although the tokens/s was much lower than Claude when I tried it. But for background agents the price difference makes it absolutely worth it.

[ewoodrich]

Yes, if you try using Kilo Code/Cline via Openrouter the cost will be much cheaper using Deepseek/Kimi vs Claude Sonnet 4.5.