I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek

I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek(twitter.com)

13 points by agentbc9000 4 hours ago | 5 comments

sibidharan 4 hours ago |

Which models are we talking about? Is there any degradation in quality, long context retrieval?

throwa356262 2 hours ago | |

The tweet mentioned deepseek V4 flash.

From HF: 284B parameters (13B active), 1M context window.

This is indeed some kind of compressed context and the quality goes down as the context grows. IIRC the V4 paper had some numbers on this

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash

wilbur_whateley 2 hours ago | | |

V4 flash is much worse than any Claude model. If you're doing something simple, it can be a good way to save money though.

ninju 1 hour ago | |

It depends on how mature the DeepSeek model became before OpenAI noticed that they were wholesale replicating their model and starting blocking access

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/openai-accuses-deepseek-...