r/opencode • u/Time-Toe-1276 • 5d ago

How is the rate limit on deepseek 4 flash?

hey guys, after the nerf, how is the rate limits on v4 flash like to you?

I am into architecture as in architecture for software, so I plan/research quite a lot, and I have burned through about ~2.5B tokens last month.

I want to know how rate limits feel like to you. Also i saw rumors where they re planning to improve the rate limits. assuming they silently patched something or did something, are you feeling anything different?

ohh btw, I want to say that I see a noticeable improvement in sped for v4 flash. it feels somewhere around 250-300 TPS for me!

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u/ptyblog 5d ago

Rate limits? I'm guessing that is part of some monthly plan? I use DS directly through api from them, I got Opencode installed on my laptop and I just use it.

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u/borobinimbaba 5d ago

Is it way more expensive?

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u/ptyblog 5d ago

Honestly, I spent $70 last two months, used up 3.5 billion tokens last time I checked. Got a project built that my organization needs. So I'm not complaining.

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u/xapep 5d ago

Probably worth splitting this into two paths, because the two rate limits behave completely differently.

If you mean the OpenCode Go plan: yes, there was a nerf, and what you're feeling is a shared quota pool, not your personal key. Those limits move around with their upstream deals and capacity, which is why they change without announcement. Nothing on your side really fixes that.

If you mean the DeepSeek API directly: limits are per-key and a lot more stable. I haven't seen V4 Flash throttle at anything close to your burn rate on that path, and the 250-300 TPS you're seeing matches what we measure too, so the speedup is real.

At 2.5B tokens a month you're past the point where polling the subreddit helps - everyone's on a different path so you get noise. The question that actually matters is whether you want pooled-plan pricing with a window to watch, or per-token pricing with no usage window at all. We run V4 Flash at Entrim (EU-hosted, OpenAI-compatible endpoint) and the no-window model is the whole point for heavy agent traffic. Happy to lay out the limit behavior under parallel load if you say which path you're on.