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by _def 21 days ago
I literally burned through 20USD in a couple of hours on openrouter with deepseek v4 pro and opencode tasks - i'm sure i did something wrong
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Not saying this is what you did, but I found out the hard way that keeping a context window open for a long time burns tokens like crazy. I had a Hermes session using DeepSeek v4 Pro via Ollama, and ate half my weekly token allotment in a couple hours, just by piling on more and more work inside the same prompt, instead of exiting out and starting a new session (or using the Hermes command to start a new session without exiting).
Yeah sounds like maybe you got stuck in a loop? If you’re a big Deepseek fan, check out their Codewhale harness. It is actually really slick and you can use your OpenRouter account with it.

You can use any model you want but it is really tailored to work well with the Deepseek duo