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Negative
Intermittent EPROTO: The TLS handshake failed. Does the server speak TLS on this port?GitHub issue
Kilo Code agent sessions on the DeepSeek API intermittently stop with TLS handshake failures.
Positive
Comment on: Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro HighspeedHacker News comment
Keeps a DeepSeek account and almost always uses it when a task needs API access, calling it good enough.
Counts toward
Positive
A vibe-coded MITM test proxy built for about $0.30 of DeepSeek API spendHacker News comment
The author tested with a vibe-coded MITM proxy of the author's own that hijacks PyPI installations, created for about $0.30 of spend on the DeepSeek API.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: MiniMax M3.1 FlashHacker News comment
Holds both a DeepSeek platform account, citing off-peak pricing, and a US$100 a month Claude plan, and reaches for DeepSeek Flash most of the time for its speed.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek modelsHacker News comment
Replaced a Claude Max subscription with the DeepSeek API this month and finds V4.1 Flash fast and rarely refusing.
Counts toward
Positive
A platform.deepseek.com account beside a $100 a month Claude subscription, and DS Flash used mostHacker News comment
The author has both a platform.deepseek.com account, cheering its off-peak pricing, and a $100 a month Claude subscription, and mostly uses DS Flash, pretty much every time.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017Hacker News comment
Runs out of a US$20 plan's five-hour limit in minutes and gets far more done with US$20 of DeepSeek API spend.
Counts toward
Positive
[Experimental Feature Feedback] Routing DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Requests to DeepSeek's Own APIGitHub issue
In a small set of tests, OpenCode Go requests over the Responses or Anthropic Messages protocols always reached DeepSeek's own API, with roughly 20% better time to first token and output speed, so the plugin added an experimental switch.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: The cost of getting a job todayHacker News comment
Says five dollars of DeepSeek tokens covers about a week of constant use.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?Hacker News comment
Uses DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on DeepSeek's own API as a baseline model for everyday tasks, keeping frontier models for research and large coding projects.
No opinion stated
A simple loop calls the DeepSeek API for JSON that invokes native Nokia functionsHacker News comment
The author created a very simple loop that calls the DeepSeek API to return JSON, and uses that JSON to invoke native Nokia functions or answer questions.
Positive
Comment on: Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?Hacker News comment
Used more than 40 billion tokens for over US$800 on the DeepSeek API in 30 days, mostly V4.1 Flash, splitting complex work into phases with verification.
Positive
Add first-class DeepSeek provider (and track other major model providers)GitHub issue
Reports that Lumen's OpenAI-compatible adapter already works against api.deepseek.com with bearer auth, and asks for a first-class DeepSeek option.
Positive
Comment on: One month coding with GLM 5.3 FlashHacker News comment
Finds V4.1 Flash much cheaper on DeepSeek's own API because its cache hit rate reaches 99% and more, which widens the cost gap on long tasks.
Counts toward
Negative
Comment on: One month coding with GLM 5.3 FlashHacker News comment
Avoids the official DeepSeek API because DeepSeek stores and trains on prompts.
Negative
From a production bot, reports DeepSeek Flash writing raw internal tool-call markup into message content when a request omits tools, and ships a defensive parser.
Positive
1.8bn tokens in a week bought from DeepSeek, 99.2% of them cache hits, for US$18.13Hacker News comment
The author used 1.8bn tokens in the past week from DeepSeek itself, and 99.2% were cache hits. The total cost was US$18.13.
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Positive
Weeks without topping up a DeepSeek balance, against weekly OpenAI top-upsHacker News comment
The author goes weeks without topping up the DeepSeek balance and has to top up the OpenAI balance at least every week, and uses 4.1 Flash almost exclusively for both planning and implementation.
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Negative
Replaying three captured production conversations 45 times, 13 ended with the whole answer in reasoning_content and empty content on a normal stop.
Positive
I built Codex Switcher - Open source Mac menu bar app to use Deepseek with CodexReddit post
Ran out of Codex usage on a Pro plan, used DeepSeek with Pi, then built a menu bar app that switches Codex to DeepSeek through DeepSeek's official Codex integration in one click.
Mixed
Comment on: Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?Hacker News comment
Runs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash agents for speed and price with a frontier model as advisor, while calling the API's privacy policy not great.
Positive
DeepSeek as the default model on ChatGPT CodexDeveloper blog post, DEV Community
Sets DeepSeek Flash as Codex's default model on the official API to drop a flat subscription, and prices a moderate coding week at US$0.18 off-peak against US$1.63 on GPT-5.
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Positive
Comment on: DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 proHacker News comment
Uses the DeepSeek API, OpenRouter, and Vercel AI Gateway with OpenCode, and finds the DeepSeek API faster and more reliable than the cheapest hosts.
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Positive
Comment on: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Hacker News comment
Recommends replacing OpenRouter with direct calls to the DeepSeek API to skip the fee and get the better caching rate.
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Positive
Comment on: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Hacker News comment
Says the official API's cache reads are about ten times cheaper than other hosts', so long chats cost about a dollar.
Counts toward
Negative
deepseek-v4-flash terminates prematurely in agent tool-call loops via OpenAI-compatible APIGitHub issue
In a tool-call loop, V4 Flash often answers with one short sentence and a stop finish, ending the agent's turn and skipping the tool call.
Counts toward, pending a recheck
Positive
Uses the DeepSeek API, pays peanuts, and is very satisfiedHacker News comment
The author uses the DeepSeek API, pays peanuts and is very satisfied.
Counts toward
Negative
Comment on: DeepSeek planning to significantly raise pricesHacker News comment
Noticed the DeepSeek API running slowly for several days and points to an alternative model with similar price and performance.
No opinion stated
The email DeepSeek sent its API users about a planned, significant price riseHacker News comment
The author posts the email DeepSeek sent to API users. It says DeepSeek plans to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services, with a significant increase expected, and that users who continue after the billing adjustment are deemed to have accepted the adjusted billing terms.
Counts toward
Positive
$5 a month going directly through DeepSeek's API all dayHacker News comment
Going directly through DeepSeek's API and hitting it all day long with light and medium tasks, the author is at $5 a month.
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Positive
The DeepSeek API for all coding at home, through OpenCode or Pi, for $5 over six monthsHacker News comment
The author uses OpenCode or the Pi harness with the DeepSeek API for all coding at home, and the cost was $5 for six months of use.
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Positive
287 million tokens in a couple of days on DeepSeek's API, for US$5.77Hacker News comment
Using DeepSeek's API directly, the author burnt 287 million tokens in a couple of days, at a cost of US$5.77.
Counts toward
Positive
Happy buying tokens directly from DeepSeekHacker News comment
The author has been happy buying tokens directly from DeepSeek, and says both API services the author uses are excellent.
Mixed
Anyone else find managing separate API keys/billing across LLM providers annoying?Reddit post
Runs a project on the Claude, GPT and DeepSeek APIs with three keys, three billing consoles and different minimum top-ups, and maintains the routing between them by hand.
Positive
DeepSeek's platform API with V4 Flash in OpenCode, more than acceptable for maybe $10 over a couple of weeksHacker News comment
The author finds going directly through DeepSeek's platform API, with its V4 Flash model hooked into a harness such as OpenCode, more than acceptable, and thinks the spend was maybe $10 over a couple of weeks.
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Positive
15 cents this month on the DeepSeek API with a home-built coding agent, and three apps delivered to clientsHacker News comment
This month the author has spent only 15 cents using the DeepSeek API with a coding agent of the author's own, and delivered three apps to clients.
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Mixed
DeepSeek's Anthropic endpoint for bigger reading jobs near the limitHacker News comment
The author advises putting $5 into deepseek.com and setting ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic. The author started with bigger reading jobs near the limit and describes the service as somewhat lower quality; its lower cost lets work continue.
Positive
The DeepSeek API caches raw API calls well, so it is hard to spend a lot fastHacker News comment
The DeepSeek API seems really good at caching, so it is hard to spend a lot of money fast. The author had been concerned about needing to do something specific in a simple agent harness to make caching effective, and DeepSeek seems to handle caching very effectively for raw API calls.
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Mixed
The DeepSeek dashboard shows around 100 million tokens a day, almost all of it cacheHacker News comment
At the author's current usage, DeepSeek tokens cost about the same as an Anthropic Max 100 USD subscription, which is also because DeepSeek generally needs more tokens. The DeepSeek dashboard shows around 100 million tokens a day, almost all of it cache.
Positive
A custom terminal coding agent with file tools only, connected to the DeepSeek APIHacker News comment
The author uses a custom terminal coding agent that only reads and writes local files and connects to the DeepSeek API. Given a prompt to build an app, it prints its thought process line by line and has the final result in a couple of minutes.
Positive
DeepSeek API credits never expire, and the prices are ridiculously low for the qualityHacker News comment
With the DeepSeek API, the author's credits never expire and can be used whenever and in whatever amount, and the prices are ridiculously low for the quality, intelligence and performance.
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Positive
US$1.15 used after two full weekends on a 2 USD DeepSeek API top-upHacker News comment
The author registered a DeepSeek API key, topped up 2 USD and used only DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash with max thinking. Usage stood at US$1.15 after two full weekends.
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Positive
3.4 Billion Tokens for $27: A Real DeepSeek Cost AnalysisDeveloper blog post, DEV Community
From the author's actual DeepSeek bills for one month: 3,452,248,487 tokens and 37,882 API calls for $27, a monthly spend of ¥194.09, which the author puts down to a cache hit rate of about 95%.
Counts toward
Pages from DeepSeek, used to check facts for every group.
Lists deepseek-flash (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017) and deepseek-v4-pro (DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813) with a 1M context, up to 384K output, cache-hit, cache-miss, and output prices per 1M tokens, and off-peak rates at half the peak rates.
States per-account concurrency limits of 2,500 for deepseek-flash and 500 for deepseek-v4-pro, HTTP 429 above them, and capacity expansion at no extra cost.
Documents the OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API formats and agent integrations with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.
States that DeepSeek collects, processes, and stores personal data in the People's Republic of China and uses it to train and improve its models. A right to opt out of training is among the rights users may have, depending on where they live.
States that the Open Platform and the chat service use the same account and that the terms are governed by the laws of the People's Republic of China.
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| Source | Original URL | Author and context | Who | Published | Review date | Applies | Findings |
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| Intermittent EPROTO: The TLS handshake failed. Does the server speak TLS on this port?ID ds-03 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Joseph Cake, AI builder using Kilo Codeself-described: Kilo Code agent sessions against api.deepseek.com | Individual builder | Published Oct 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro HighspeedID ds-34 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | SwellJoe, Hacker News commenterself-described: Personal API use | Individual builder | Published Oct 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| A vibe-coded MITM test proxy built for about $0.30 of DeepSeek API spendID ds-55 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | aftbit, software developer in Ohio, at Atomic Canyon in 2025self-described: Building a test tool | Individual builder | Published Oct 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: MiniMax M3.1 FlashID ds-12 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | TheArcane, Hacker News commenterself-described: Pays for both the DeepSeek platform and a US$100 Claude plan | Individual builder | Published Oct 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek modelsID ds-30 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | VonLuderitz, Hacker News commenterself-described: Personal use after leaving a Claude Max plan | Individual builder | Published Oct 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| A platform.deepseek.com account beside a $100 a month Claude subscription, and DS Flash used mostID ds-49 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | TheArcane, autonomous driving perception research engineerself-described: Holds both a DeepSeek platform account and a Claude subscription | Individual builder | Published Oct 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017ID ds-26 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | computerex, Hacker News commenterself-described: Comparing a US$20 OpenAI plan with API spend | Individual builder | Published Oct 17, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| [Experimental Feature Feedback] Routing DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Requests to DeepSeek's Own APIID ds-45 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Duskriver, maintainer of the dsh-opencode-go pluginself-described: OpenCode Go requests for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Individual builder | Published Oct 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: The cost of getting a job todayID ds-35 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | 63stack, Hacker News commenterself-described: Personal API use | Individual builder | Published Oct 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?ID ds-11 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | WiSaGaN, Hacker News commenterself-described: Everyday personal tasks from the pi harness | Individual builder | Published Oct 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| A simple loop calls the DeepSeek API for JSON that invokes native Nokia functionsID ds-53 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | anupray, Software Engineerself-described: A small loop that invokes native Nokia functions | Individual builder | Published Oct 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | Listed, no finding position |
| Comment on: Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?ID ds-25 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | try-working, Hacker News commenterself-described: Heavy agentic software work on V4.1 Flash | Individual builder | Published Oct 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Add first-class DeepSeek provider (and track other major model providers)ID ds-05 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | LaneBucher, GitHub userself-described: Lumen's model adapters | Individual builder | Published Oct 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: One month coding with GLM 5.3 FlashID ds-23 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | benjiro29, Hacker News commenterself-described: Long coding tasks across hosts | Individual builder | Published Oct 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: One month coding with GLM 5.3 FlashID ds-24 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | eli, Hacker News commenterself-described: Choosing a host for DeepSeek models | Individual builder | Published Oct 2, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| [BUG] deepseek-flash emits internal DSML tool-call markup in content when tools array is omitted but history carries tool_callsID ds-10 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Doll-sensei, operator of a QQ bot on the DeepSeek APIself-described: A production QQ bot on the API | Individual builder | Published Sep 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| 1.8bn tokens in a week bought from DeepSeek, 99.2% of them cache hits, for US$18.13ID ds-47 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | taylorfinley, serial builder of thingsself-described: A week of tokens bought from DeepSeek itself | Individual builder | Published Sep 29, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Weeks without topping up a DeepSeek balance, against weekly OpenAI top-upsID ds-62 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | dools, runs BenkoPhoneself-described: Planning and implementation on prepaid balances | Individual builder | Published Sep 29, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| [BUG] deepseek-v4-pro and v4.1-flash: finish_reason "stop" with the answer in reasoning_content and content emptyID ds-09 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Amiyanshu-web, developer replaying production conversationsself-described: Streaming with thinking enabled on api.deepseek.com | Individual builder | Published Sep 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| I built Codex Switcher - Open source Mac menu bar app to use Deepseek with CodexID ds-41 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | System_Independent (maskaravivek on GitHub), builder of Codex Switcherself-described: Codex pointed at DeepSeek after a subscription ran out | Individual builder | Published Sep 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?ID ds-21 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | tiluha, Hacker News commenterself-described: V4.1 Flash agents with a frontier advisor model | Individual builder | Published Sep 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| DeepSeek as the default model on ChatGPT CodexID ds-44 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | Ekky Armandi, full-stack Python developer (DEV profile)self-described: Codex configured to use DeepSeek Flash through the official API | Individual builder | Published Sep 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 proID ds-20 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mattmcal, Hacker News commenterself-described: OpenCode on the DeepSeek API, OpenRouter, and Vercel AI Gateway | Individual builder | Published Sep 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813ID ds-16 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | irthomasthomas, Hacker News commenterself-described: Choosing between the DeepSeek API and OpenRouter | Individual builder | Published Aug 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813ID ds-17 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | nchmy, Hacker News commenterself-described: Long chats on the official API | Individual builder | Published Aug 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| deepseek-v4-flash terminates prematurely in agent tool-call loops via OpenAI-compatible APIID ds-08 | Developer Communities | github.com/ | Lady-Lin, developer running a coding agent on the APIself-described: A coding agent's execution model on api.deepseek.com | Individual builder | Published Aug 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Needs a recheck | |
| Uses the DeepSeek API, pays peanuts, and is very satisfiedID ds-64 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | stavros, founder of Stochastic Technologiesself-described: Personal API use | Individual builder | Published Aug 7, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: DeepSeek planning to significantly raise pricesID ds-14 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | shortformblog, Hacker News commenterself-described: Personal use of the API | Individual builder | Published Aug 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| The email DeepSeek sent its API users about a planned, significant price riseID ds-54 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mittermayr, self-employed, formerly a Microsoft Product Plannerself-described: An email to DeepSeek API users | Individual builder | Published Aug 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| $5 a month going directly through DeepSeek's API all dayID ds-51 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Bayart, SREself-described: Light and medium tasks all day long | Individual builder | Published Aug 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| The DeepSeek API for all coding at home, through OpenCode or Pi, for $5 over six monthsID ds-50 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | eulers_secret, works on embedded Linux for avionics, formerly at Intel for more than 10 yearsself-described: All coding at home | Individual builder | Published Jul 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| 287 million tokens in a couple of days on DeepSeek's API, for US$5.77ID ds-46 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | lionkor, software engineer in the electrical power industryself-described: Calling DeepSeek's API directly | Individual builder | Published Jun 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Happy buying tokens directly from DeepSeekID ds-63 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mark_l_watson, author of 20 books and a practitioner specializing in artificial intelligenceself-described: Tokens bought directly from DeepSeek | Individual builder | Published Jun 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | Listed, no finding position |
| Anyone else find managing separate API keys/billing across LLM providers annoying?ID ds-36 | Developer Communities | www.reddit.com/ | NoMaterialMan, founder building a product on the Claude, GPT and DeepSeek APIsself-described: A product calling Claude, GPT and DeepSeek through each provider's own API | Individual builder | Published Jun 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| DeepSeek's platform API with V4 Flash in OpenCode, more than acceptable for maybe $10 over a couple of weeksID ds-52 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | atreids, Software Engineer in Scotlandself-described: DeepSeek's platform API called directly from a harness | Individual builder | Published Jun 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| 15 cents this month on the DeepSeek API with a home-built coding agent, and three apps delivered to clientsID ds-60 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Kuyawa, programmerself-described: Client app work with a home-built coding agent | Individual builder | Published Jun 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| DeepSeek's Anthropic endpoint for bigger reading jobs near the limitID ds-57 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | CJefferson (Christopher Jefferson), Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of St AndrewsANTHROPIC_BASE_URL pointed at DeepSeek near the limit | Individual builder | Published Jun 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| The DeepSeek API caches raw API calls well, so it is hard to spend a lot fastID ds-58 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | SwellJoe, works on Virtualminself-described: Raw API calls from a simple agent harness | Individual builder | Published Jun 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| The DeepSeek dashboard shows around 100 million tokens a day, almost all of it cacheID ds-59 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | KronisLV, software engineer from Latviaself-described: DeepSeek token spend set against an Anthropic Max subscription | Individual builder | Published Jun 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| A custom terminal coding agent with file tools only, connected to the DeepSeek APIID ds-61 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Kuyawa, programmerself-described: Building apps from a prompt with a home-built terminal agent | Individual builder | Published May 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | Listed, no finding position |
| DeepSeek API credits never expire, and the prices are ridiculously low for the qualityID ds-56 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | sourcecodeplz, full-stack engineerself-described: Prepaid DeepSeek API credits | Individual builder | Published May 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| US$1.15 used after two full weekends on a 2 USD DeepSeek API top-upID ds-48 | Developer Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | vinhnx, iOS & Applied AI Engineerself-described: A DeepSeek API key with a 2 USD top-up | Individual builder | Published May 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| 3.4 Billion Tokens for $27: A Real DeepSeek Cost AnalysisID ds-65 | Engineering Blogs & Reviews | dev.to/ | xulingfeng, QA engineer of 15 years building an AI test frameworkself-described: A month of DeepSeek bills | Individual builder | Published May 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Oct 31, 2026 | Current | |
| Models and pricingID dd-01 | Product Documentation | api-docs.deepseek.com/ | DeepSeekOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Rate limitID dd-02 | Product Documentation | api-docs.deepseek.com/ | DeepSeekOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Your first API callID dd-03 | Product Documentation | api-docs.deepseek.com/ | DeepSeekOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Privacy policyID dd-04 | Product Documentation | cdn.deepseek.com/ | DeepSeekOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Open Platform terms of serviceID dd-05 | Product Documentation | cdn.deepseek.com/ | DeepSeekOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
