[syntaxing]

It’s wild. Regardless of Deepseek direct pricing, on Openrouter itself, the pricing for Pro is comparable to Haiku. Flash is even cheaper. You get Opus 4.5 and better than Sonnet 4.6 performance.

[michaelbuckbee]

I was curious just how much of a difference there was, so ran a quick eval comparing them and fwiw DeepSeek is considerably slower but much much ~5x cheaper than Haiku and fwiw ~35x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7.

https://07ytscmybx.evvl.io/

[skybrian]

It can't see images so it doesn't do everything Sonnet will do. Still a good deal though.

[eikenberry]

You can specify the provider on Openrouter to only use Deepseek and get the cheaper pricing.

[syntaxing]

But worse data retention and training policy. It’s a balance.

[chrisweekly]

Could you please clarify exactly what you mean?

[syntaxing]

If you look at openrouter for Deepseek model providers that does not use your data to train, it’s still significantly cheaper than Anthropic pricing. The Pro and Flash performs closely to Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.6 respectively (though no vision capability which is a fair thing another user called out). The pricing of Pro is close to Haiku. The pricing of Flash is 10X cheaper. To put into perspective, you can have Sonnet 4.6 capabilities at 10X cheaper than Haiku even without “Chinese government subsidies”.

[chrisweekly]

Thanks!