[pzo]

> If you are a heavy user of coding agents these plans are a fantastic deal. I just ran the ccusage tool on my laptop to get an estimate of how much I would have spent if I were to pay for API tokens in the past 30 days and got

You think this is fantastic deal only because they use similar like tricks where they inflate the price and tell you something supposed to cost $1000 but they have this today promo for $100.

I was there too and paying for a while. Few weeks ago I tried DeepSeek V4 Pro - expected its gonna be shit but its actually pretty good.

The deal is I pay daily ~$1 for DSV4-pro for ~100M API token usage. And they probably not getting broke because >90% of those token in practice is cache read and they very well optimized for that.

[sourcecodeplz]

Yep, exactly this. And I have so much less anxiety that I have to use my 5-hour/weekly usage or I lose it... with deepseek api the credits never expire, I can use them when I want, how much I want and the prices are ridiculously low for the quality/intelligence/performance.

[conradkay]

GPT 5.5 is maybe 4x the size of v4 pro, hard to compare price since cache hit is basically free with Deepseek, but 40x cheaper (with their 75% off) seems about right.

So ballpark same price per parameter as Simon.