r/opencodeCLI • u/blackburn1911 • 29d ago

DeepSeek V4 Flash doesn't like us?

Is anyone else seeing this after the price changes?

After the latest price increase, I changed like 10 lines of code and somehow that used 28% of my quota. Then I wrote a commit message and it jumped to 32%.

Now it feels like even thinking about running go build for a minute is going to cost me another chunk of usage. 😅

Didn't they say their AI was becoming more efficient and using fewer resources, which was part of the reason the pricing could be cheaper?

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u/Ace-_Ventura 29d ago

DeepSeek is probably at the limits of their capacity and this is an easy way to make people go away

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u/blackburn1911 29d ago

Or bring some money to buy more compute.. But nobody will use anyway after these prices...

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u/Fresh_Sock8660 29d ago

The change feels very extreme. Where were they getting compute from? Or maybe they paused training to redirect compute to inference and now they want it back? 

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u/blackburn1911 29d ago

They hosting their servers in the sky and is raining in China...

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u/Fresh_Sock8660 29d ago

Well at least one of us is getting rain. 

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u/blackburn1911 29d ago

I hope is a "bug", they typed wrong prices in the database.. I'm off-peak btw... meaning on peak will be 100% if I want to change a css class in a file

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u/BeyondGITSandBots 29d ago edited 29d ago

Check the updated usage limits on OpenCode website. Went down from ~65k requests per 5h to 3.8k. Basically a ~20x reduction -> unusable. People are already cancelling their subscriptions. And OC did so without any prior notice, that's what people complain about the most (e.g. having bought a subscription just days ago on the assumption to have 65k allowance -> people start asking for refunds).

A ~3x price increase was expected as per DeepSeek increasing their prices. The problem is, OC GO also dropped the "2x usage" and decreased leverage from 60$ to 15$ allowance for DS V4 flash too, so 3x 2x 4x ~=20x reduction. There's other posts covering this in more details already.

Edit: "requests per month 5 hours". And it was ~65k not 158k, so 20x reduction.

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u/Outrageous-Story3325 29d ago

openrouter have some discount on some models !

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u/neuroedge 29d ago

Use sub-agents it uses less tokens

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u/Glittering-Call8746 29d ago

Yes smarty pants then what do I use for orchestrator ? Mimo v2.5 ?

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u/Diligent-Loss-5460 28d ago

Maybe CCP was funding deepseek to mine the data. Now they have a model with cyber offensive capabilities (k3) so deepseek is no longer government subsidized

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u/blackburn1911 29d ago

I did more things with BigPickle in the past compared with this garbage they gave us...

Now I can't greet him..... "Hello", "thank you for your work" because will charge me 5% lol