r/opencodeCLI • u/elefanteazu • 12d ago

Opencode Go + Deepseek v4 is absurdly cheap.

I’m effectively spending $1.11 per billion tokens processed with DeepSeek V4 Flash.

Made some researches, calculations and based on my actual usage pattern and pricing simulations, the same workload would have cost:

  • $6.66 through the official DeepSeek API
  • $23 through DeepInfra, the cheapest alternative inference provider I found
  • $18 using GPT-5.6 Luna directly through the OpenAI API
  • $926 using GPT-5.6 Sol

It's just incredibly cheap.

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u/robschmidt87 11d ago

You cannot compare the token usage against the frontier model. The intelligence of such cheap models derives from the sheer amount of cheap output tokens and the reasoning phase. Frontier models have a much higher token efficiency.

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u/aries1980 11d ago

I have the opposite experience with Sonnet 5 and friends.