[epolanski]

I'm also thinking the same.

I have been trying Claude Code with DeepSeek 4 apis, and the experience is barely different. In fact the margin of error is so small that harness and prompting account for the most impact in output quality.

But, here's the catch: I spend barely more than a handful of dollars per day of regular usage. In fact DS4 via api is cheaper than Claude 100$ subscription.

I really think that very soon many will start realizing that the alternatives are extremely close in performance but dramatically different in pricing.

[port11]

Claude includes or at least promises ZDR in some situations, whereas DeepSeek is explicitly using output to train models. The subsidising might be done with your data.