Hi people, just wanted to ask if anyone has had any experiences running the paid version of DeepSeek as their daily AI driver? It’s pricing is almost 30 times lower than ChatGPT for example, so looking into it seriously as a study/coding aid.
I have had good results from Deepseek V4 Flash 0731, but the way I use it is:
- Let deepseek take a first pass
- Have a second agent review
Also GPT 5.6 Luna is also well priced and for smaller context behaves similar to Terra at high reasoning.
If budget is tight I would say Deepseek Flash implement and Luna review.
Model diversity, at least on my experience, leads to better results. Also, have found the GPT family of models seem to do well as reviewers (at least on my testing / use cases seem to do better on reviewing that coding).
paid version of DeepSeek
If you meant using the Deepseek company plan vs just using their model, I have not used it directly from Deepseek. I use OpenRouter / Venice.ai.
Very insightful, thank you! How much does your set up cost you per month (on average)?
I’d look to see if it’s cheaper to self host first. It’s big, and I ain’t seen hard drive prices lately, but might be worth it. Open source and all.
That would be cool, but I don’t have the hardware. Just an old laptop.