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Running 7d ↳ DeepSeek Warns of Steep Price Hike Days After Cut-Rate V4 Flash Launch

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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  • I've been using it extensively since the release and the best summary I can give is that it's good enough to use it for (almost) everything and cheap enough that the cost are irrelevant. I'm running it in Oh My Pi with a second instance running as "advisor" and even with 5-6 active sessions (effectively 12 streams) I'm struggling to spend more…

    LaurensBERHacker News2d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • My Claude account was banned the other day. The only possible cause I can think of is that I tried to authenticate from the AI assistant in a JetBrains IDE and, not thinking, entered the details for my regular subscription rather than an API account. As soon as it became apparent that I needed an API account rather than a subscription, I just…

    NoboruWatayaHacker News2d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Note this is the 07/31 release of DSv4 flash and not the "preview" that they put out a couple months or so ago.I've been running this model locally for a week, and the preview version before that. This updated one feels like a whole tier up. It's very capable for debugging and analyzing documents/data I upload.The killer feature, IMO, is the…

    ak_tHacker News2d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • This is more exciting than k3, IMO. Dsv4 models are extremely cheap to serve. Improving their capabilities has lots of downstream effects, as it becomes "good enough" for more and more tasks.DS was serving the pro version at extremely low prices for a long time, and they've had integrations with opencode & other providers, so they likely gathered…

    NitpickLawyerHacker News10d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • I've been driving flash model for 90% of my tasks. It's better than pro (for unknown reasons), very cheap and fast.I try to keep changes under 1000 lines and drive architectural decisions myself, barely notice any difference compared to frontier models. The rest 10% is to spot bugs, security problems and to investigate better architecture, which…

    f311aHacker News10d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Compared to the last Deepseek V4 Flash version I've had tons of issues with it getting in infinite loops and talking to itself without executing tool calls, wasting tons of tokensThis is on Pi agent, nothing fancy at all about my prompts or use case. Anyone else experiencing this?I've also had it randomly go from talking about Rust to talking…

    nylonstrungHacker News2d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Essentially I'm running everything on flash now inside pi. With the correct set of MCP servers, context reducer tooling and skills it can implement any task I throw at it. Some sessions take 30+ turns, but it's fast and cheap; all this in an hour, with ~$0.5 cost.(TBH though, in my multi-subagent workflow I do use other, more expensive models for…

    kmarcHacker News10d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • The recently announced they're raising their prices 10x right?Which would put them... exactly where everyone else is on this graph.Edit: I seem to have misunderstood the news. I thought the magical cache read pricing was going away (0.002) and they were going to be on par with everyone else (0.02). But I have no idea.Edit 2: Apparently, neither do…

    andaiHacker News2d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • I use deepseek for a lot of my personal day-to-day agent needs, and I will simply put this here and let this speak for itself, last 30 days:- Cost: $4.55USD- API requests: 3,467- Tokens: 323,183,886And as an engineer who leads a small team, I have very high standards for quality, and these carry across to my personal projects where I use deepseek…

    lionkorHacker News10d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • I strongly recommend trying this for programming tasks.It is strong (not Fable strong though) with a much better “persona” than Opus, and very different blindspots. If you flip between Claude and this you will find both catch the mistakes of the other before they get out of control.On balance I actually prefer DeepSeek for programming now, because…

    mosuraHacker News2d agoview on Hacker News ↗

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