Why “DS” is being discussed
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I freak out since months for Z.ai lite subscription, I use glm-5.3-flash every day for a ludicrous 8.5USD/month and it's as good as DS 4.1 flash, if not better.
by alexfortin · Oct 8, 2026
Luna is very slow and bad at agentic tasks. DS runs circles around it and there are US providers providing cheaper rates no matter the time of the day.
by pimeys · Oct 8, 2026
Interesting, if the cache hit is that good, I think HN convinced me to toss $20 at DS official, and see how long that lasts.
by georgel · Oct 8, 2026
I'm all in for saving money and _can_ move to using DS directly from them, but maybe I am missing something here: OpenRouter Pricing: $0.02/M input tokens $0.60/M outp…
by georgel · Oct 8, 2026
I am curious how you managed to spend that much on Deepseek via OpenRouter. I loaded $100 back in July while using v4-flash or whatever the cheap good model was at the time, and…
by georgel · Oct 8, 2026
That hasn't happened with GLM 5.3 yet but with DS 4.1 Flash it did happen and it also had a tendency to loop.
by jacquesm · Oct 8, 2026
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