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LLM API Cache Hit Math: Why Your DeepSeek Bill Says $4 But the Pricing Says $50
Real LLM bills run 3 to 50 times lower than headline per-million-token price because most input tokens come from cache.
May 10, 20268 min read1
DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Flash: 3 Tasks, 100M Tokens, Real Cost-Quality Tradeoff
V4 Pro and V4 Flash cost 12x apart on list price. On bounded, single-file coding work, the quality gap is small enough that most teams can't tell the
May 9, 20267 min read
Replacing Claude with DeepSeek V4 in Claude Code: 30-Day, 100M-Token Cost & Quality Test
Running Claude Code on DeepSeek V4 instead of Claude Opus 4.6 cuts API costs by 98.7% at equivalent token volumes, but introduces tradeoffs in reasoni
May 7, 20269 min read
DeepSeek-R1 Reasoning API: Production Guide with Chain-of-Thought (2026)
DeepSeek-R1 exposes its full chain-of-thought via API at $0.28/M tokens — roughly 9× cheaper than GPT-5.4 and 18× cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7.
Apr 26, 20268 min read