DeepSeek API
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6recommend
1warn against
Apr 23, 2026first mention
Oct 18, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Each one is now cheaper.”
“I've been heavily using Pane with Deepseek API and it costs me less than 10$ a month.”
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“with 2$ I was able to get around 120M tokens from deepseek easily”
“They don't have the super-cheap cache reads deal that DeepSeek's own endpoint does”
“Seriously, why can't huge companies like OpenAI and Google produce documentation that is half this good??”
Caveats and dissent
“the fact DeepSeek API is not zero data retention I cannot get over”
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All comments 9
“the fact DeepSeek API is not zero data retention I cannot get over”
“Each one is now cheaper.”
“I've been heavily using Pane with Deepseek API and it costs me less than 10$ a month.”
“It's not as cheap as Deepseek's own API offering”
“with 2$ I was able to get around 120M tokens from deepseek easily”
“They don't have the super-cheap cache reads deal that DeepSeek's own endpoint does”
“it connects to DeepSeek API”
I am very partial to Mistral's API docs https://docs.mistral.ai/api
“Seriously, why can't huge companies like OpenAI and Google produce documentation that is half this good??”