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sparkling | on: Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Is it? OpenRouter shows DeepInfra being cheaper than DeepSeek directly

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260731#pr...

thecopy | parent | next
I agree with parent. OpenRouter might be cheaper list-price, but i have been using 10$ on DS platform since April/May, still have 2$ left. Using OpenRouter i depleted the same dollar-amount in a 1-2 weeks with same usage pattern. No idea why.
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sparkling | root | parent
What does your usage look like?
nimoday | parent | next
DeepInfra's Cache Read is 6.5 times more expensive than DeepSeek.
miroljub | root | parent
And in many scenarios, cache hits are 99% of tokens, so the price difference in caching really adds up quickly.
maattdd | parent
Interesting. My anecdotal experience is that it is.