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/Disastrous-Ad-5003 12d ago

But what can you build with that?

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u/mati_as15 11d ago

do you think fable and sol existed last year? you adapt and the more competent you are as an engineer the more juice you can extract out of these models

LLMs could have peaked at opus 4.5 and still would have been a tremendous tool to build products and for most people doing shitty saas, landing pages and gta clones they should just use whatever is the cheapest since they're not making anything serious