> Deepseek on openrouter is still 25x cheaper than claude
Is it? Or only when you don’t factor in Claude cached context? I’ve consistently found it pointless to use open models because the price of the good ones is so close to cached context on Claude that I don’t need them.
Deepseek via their API also has cached context, although the tokens/s was much lower than Claude when I tried it. But for background agents the price difference makes it absolutely worth it.
When used with crush/opencode they are close to Claude performance.
Nothing that runs on a 4090 would compete but Deepseek on openrouter is still 25x cheaper than claude