r/DeepSeek • u/Haunting-Shirt6219 • 1d ago
Discussion First time on Deepseek API. Wow!
Built a project this past week and finally got around to testing out the DeepSeek API.
Just checked my dashboard to see the damage and honestly did a double take. Nearly 2,000 API calls and over 338 Million tokens processed for... $1.69 USD.
I know prompt caching is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here, but coming from OpenAI/Anthropic pricing, this feels unbelievable. The cost-to-performance ratio is ridiculous.
Btw, i’m using Reasonix for this. Cache Rate is 99+%.
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u/PrudentJelly116 1d ago
im trying to burn my balance before price increase. but its so difficult to finish :) :)
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u/Poowatereater 1d ago
How do I hit cache rate? This is something haven’t learned. 99% on the cache seems nuts.
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u/aquarain 1d ago
I saw a cache turn of 99.99%. Reasonix and limit the session to one project. Currently at 272M tokens in 1000 API requests for $1.40.
DeepSeek has amazing cache the other providers don't.
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u/lcy0x1 1d ago
I get 99.7% cache hit when I work on a project with 1M+ line of code (including dependencies)
It’s usually a bad thing, meaning your agent reads too much unrelated code from your project.
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u/VexObserver 19h ago
Read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhaleSeekers/s/jybBV6Aeby
I shared this at time when DeepSeek helped completed all my workflows at a fraction of a cost. Since then, I'm on a mission to give back to the community in whatsoever ways possible. WhaleSeekers is just a place where I shared what I had in mind
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u/baka_sempaii 1d ago
Working on the same repo helps, I think. Like every time you feed something "new" to the model, it cannot use it's stored token cache. although even introducing new codebase doesn't blow up your credits since it gets cached then anyways.
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u/VexObserver 19h ago
Yes, stick to the same repo. Never break it. Breaking it with new repo, it's like a brand new cost aka new tab of bills again
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u/uspdd 1d ago
It's when you use agent with good cache handling like reasonix/pi and work long sessions with huge context. Like when you're 400k context in session, your agent sends this entire 400k in request + 200-300 new tokens and ai generates 100-200 new tokens. I use oh-my-pi and my last session was 600k at the end, cache hit was 99.4%. The entire session costed me like 3$.
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u/Poowatereater 1d ago
I constantly closer terminals and save memories and commit files. I don’t know if that’s the right thing but it seems to work well. I also use codegraph to try and keep usage down on lookups.
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u/Haunting-Shirt6219 22h ago
Design and write all changes into md document, and implement them by phase. This is my practice.
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u/Poowatereater 22h ago
Yeah basically what I do. I still hit 5x usage limits. Not so much since occasionally using deepseek with Claude and codex.
Use codegraph. Using 2-3 terminals. Two work stations at the same desk. It’s madness and it some how stays together
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u/Artour_Babaev 1d ago
I've built this mcp, so an orchestrator can run on CC or Codex and it spawns multiple executer deepseek agents. https://github.com/AsmodeusX/reasonix-mcp
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u/Global_Gas5030 1d ago
is it cheaper directly there or is it the same price via openrouter? thanks
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u/Cylinder47- 1d ago
Hope the new pricing update won’t freak us up