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minimaxir 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

For Sonnet, that's 10% of input cost (and requires paying for the cache)

For Gemini 3.5 Flash, it's also 10% of input cost.

Which is why 2%/0.8% change the economics in a meaningful way, given the input/cache-heavy way agents operate.

throwdbaaway 4 months ago [–]

And their disk-based caching is amazing. I got a long 700k context session spanning more than a week, with pauses in between that was longer than a day, and some rewinds mixed in as well.

Stats from pi:

↑400k ↓438k R432M 71.9%/1.0M

Half a billion tokens, $2.12

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