I'm currently paying for Anthropic's Max subscription (the 100 USD one) and I quite often hit or approach the 5 hour limits, but usually get to around 60-80% of the weekly limits before they reset (Opus 4.7 with high thinking for everything, unless CC decides to spawn sub-agents with Haiku or something).
Those tokens are heavily subsidized, but DeepSeek's API pricing is looking really good. For example, with an agentic coding setup (roughly 85% input, 15% output and around 90% cache reads) I'd get around 150M tokens per month for the same 100 USD. Even at more output tokens and worse cache performance, it'd still most likely be upwards of 100M.
What would be the non-subsidized price for a V4 api? Can it be priced 3x cheaper than bigger models? In Openrouter, this 1600B param model costs 0.4$. Whereas Kimi 2.6, 1000B params is 0.7; GLM 5.1, 754B params is 1.0$.
The 150M assumption of mine is for 100 USD at the regular prices (though even that needs sufficient cache hits). Anthropic subsidizes way more per-token I think, though.
Those tokens are heavily subsidized, but DeepSeek's API pricing is looking really good. For example, with an agentic coding setup (roughly 85% input, 15% output and around 90% cache reads) I'd get around 150M tokens per month for the same 100 USD. Even at more output tokens and worse cache performance, it'd still most likely be upwards of 100M.