[onlyrealcuzzo]

Who do you buy DeepSeek from?

I bought it through OpenRouter and used it with Pi agent.

The model was good, but there appeared to be a pricing glitch or something, because it burned through $50 in under an hour on pretty trivial stuff.

Pi agent claimed it only used like $1. OpenRouter claimed differently and said I used all $50.

[paweladamczuk]

Check cache hits in your logs. You can use Openrouter or pi config to pin providers with best cache hit rates (or disable ones with the worst).

I use Openrouter for everything except Deepseek. For Deepseek I use their API directly.

[throwa356262]

There is a 3rd party harness specifically tuned for deepseek (reasonix). Have you tried that?

[Bnjoroge]

what exactly do they do to "tune" it? It's not Deepseek's official harness, and going direct with deepseek using ur own harness is stupid cheap

[kmarc]

I can highly recommend OpenCode Go.

I use it from pi.dev as well through the OpenCode Go $10 subscription ($5 first month).

Used more than 20M tokens at a cost of ~$20 (up to $60 is included in the $5 plan) Out of which deepseek pro had ~200 messages which is around 1.5M tokens (10+M cached)

[versteegen]

BTW the quotas for Go have very recently changed, now only $15 for some models instead of $60. Which is not actually a difference for DS4 Pro, because they lowered the token pricing 4x at the same time (to match the change in official pricing from DeepSeek months ago)

[h2aichat]

It is great when the task is medium, but with complex tasks Opus 4.8 is better

[matusnovak]

You can directly from https://platform.deepseek.com/

[XCSme]

I use it through OpenRouter via Kilo Code VS Code extension.

You can check the logs in OpenRouter and see which providers it used and how many tokens you used.

[try-working]

sounds like a caching issue, and maybe other issues too

[lofaszvanitt]

Why do you even need openrouter as a middle man?