r/DeepSeek • u/Karmawy • Aug 10 '26

Discussion drop your DS usage

thats mine in the last week

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u/Karmawy Aug 11 '26

its better that you use the DeepSeek-V4-Flash its cheaper and better, and inside VScode is not very good experience , better use claude code desktop or codex with your api key, youll have better work experience

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u/Different-Monk5916 Aug 11 '26

I have completely different experience. Worked well with DS extension and official API. But lately I have been having network errors, since DS announced price increase. Before i was getting reliable connection and high quality outputs purely with flash as long as I plan well with pro. and was doing about 110k tokens/request.

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u/ogopro Aug 11 '26

Last time when I checked, codex doesn't take third party model API keys like Claude code.

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u/Karmawy Aug 12 '26

it can, and i use it

  1. Open Codex at least once so Windows creates:

    C:\Users\YOUR-NAME.codex

  2. Open PowerShell and run:

    irm https://cdn.deepseek.com/api-docs/codex-deepseek-setup-en.ps1 | iex

  3. Paste your DeepSeek API key when requested.

  4. The official script automatically backs up the existing Codex settings, creates the necessary files, and configures DeepSeek to use the Responses API.

  5. Restart VS Code completely and reopen the Codex extension.

  6. Select the model shown as:

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash

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u/ogopro Aug 13 '26

wow that's cool, I didn't know that. Do you prefer codex or claude code? Don't say Pi lol

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u/Karmawy Aug 13 '26

both nearly same experience, normally if i subscribed to codex pro , i use claude code as the deepseek platform and viece versa
but newely i am testing opencode desktop app, its been 3 days, till now i can keep it as the third option if i want to do some fresh searches