That doesn't sound right. Were you using the actual Deepseek provider? The one t...

nl · 2026-05-25T02:24:42 1779675882

It's not unheard of for "more expensive" models (on a per-token basis) to end up cheaper than weaker models (on a per-task basis).

Kimi K2.5 is roughly double the price (per token) of DeepSeek v4 Pro, but cost $0.05 vs $0.16 (for the same score) on my own benchmark.

HDBaseT · 2026-05-25T00:41:03 1779669663

Yeah, I struggle to use more than a few dollars a day using Deepseek V4 Pro (max reasoning).

* Some people suggest not using max reasoning due to overthinking and looping issues, this may consume more tokens than needed.