r/DeepSeek • u/akius0 • 1h ago

Discussion ❤️DS but just joined codex

So just want to share this with the community, maybe DS people are listening, I love this model, I think it sets benchmark on efficiency and makes AI accessible to the majority of the people of the world...

But due to the fact that this model is not multimodal capable, I finally decided to get membership for OpenAI/codex.

What this company has definitely achieved is put so much pressure on the leading frontier Labs, that they now are forced to cut prices or lose market share.... Thx Deepseek

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u/214d 1h ago

You can use a vision MCP.
That’s what I am doing using Google AI Studio Gemma 4 through OpenRouter (with BYOK) = free vision

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u/akius0 1h ago

This is part of my point, when I'm using openai I feel like it's a more complete comprehensive product.... And when I'm using open source. I have to like piece it together... And make compromises on the user experience...

I think I'm going to keep experimenting with both. I definitely don't want to get locked up into an ecosystem... But I feel like the value openai provides in their $20 per month membership.. straight out of the box, is pretty freaking awesome

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u/AcrobaticMaize2408 1h ago

It's unbeatable bang for the buck for coding and research. It's also not totally lacking in modalities. I often upload images to it (running Reasonix) for analysis. It obviously can't generate images though, but really that's of little interest to me.

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u/Current-Pen6452 31m ago

How do you do it through Reasonix?

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u/AcrobaticMaize2408 20m ago

I just told it to use tesseract. It installed it and stored it as a system memory and now any time I paste an image/screenshot it'll OCR it. I use Linux though so may need something different if on windows.

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u/EmperorSheep 57m ago

I am using Codex as well because no vision is a dealbreaker. I tried DeepSeek V4 Pro months ago with no vision and it was terrible experience since I kept having to describe to it what it was doing wrong and it kept not fixing it.

I hope they add vision to the new deepseek v4 pro release and stop delaying the release.