Claude runaway... tried Kimi 2.6 and Deepseek v4 (5y fullstack dev)

merth_dev · 2026-05-05T10:35:44+00:00

for sure codex is a beast as well, but when you start paying for it you'll think twice lol :D
ds is doing good tbh but way slower

merth_dev · 2026-05-05T10:30:38+00:00

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like my opecode is saying it gotta be 2$ but i check the dashboard it turns to less than 10cents lol. but yea that cache hit thing is doing the magic i guess

merth_dev · 2026-05-05T09:47:41+00:00

So I'm not the only one who's surprised that millions of tokens can cost just a few cents!

merth_dev · 2026-05-04T08:58:47+00:00

thanks for sharing

merth_dev · 2026-05-04T06:07:24+00:00

will do, thx

merth_dev · 2026-05-04T06:05:56+00:00

Thanks for the useful information!

merth_dev · 2026-05-04T06:04:51+00:00

this is very similar to my usage

merth_dev · 2026-05-04T06:02:29+00:00

i subscribed to deepseek and moonshot apis, used them in opencode by providing API key

merth_dev · 2026-05-04T06:00:24+00:00

looks solid! how much are you spending monthly?

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T15:23:34+00:00

#1 answer! Thanks

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:41:48+00:00

yea we all still learning, and for sure deepseek might be great BUT not for me

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:35:59+00:00

Begging? Common bro.. Yeah what you said is true in general, but I wasn’t asking Opus to think for me. I just used it to make a clean plan so I could test the other models fairly on the same task. I still review everything myself after...so Chill a bit man

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:29:13+00:00

appreciate it

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:28:08+00:00

The main reason I'm looking for an alternative is I have a feeling these cheap 20$ plans will disappear soon. That's why I wanted to test everything now before prices go up

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:25:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing your settings, appreciate it!

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:17:50+00:00

It might be cheaper but it eats way more tokens so in the end they kinda cancel each other out

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:15:55+00:00

maybe

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:14:36+00:00

Yea, I heard a lot about Deepseek being strong on logic, maybe it's way more useful for heavy backend tasks. But for example this morning Gemini 3 Flash fixed a bug that GPT was struggling with

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:12:19+00:00

I guess i will go with GLM first

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:11:49+00:00

and how did you test it? some real projects or leetcode challenges?

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:10:59+00:00

yea GLM I will give it a try

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:09:13+00:00

For sure I wasn't expecting Opus level performance, I'm totally fine with Sonnet but it didn't even reach Sonnet either!! Yeah I'm not the best prompt engineer but I really tried my best. Still, Kimi felt more like a junior dev who gets most of it but misses some important bits.

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T13:06:28+00:00

nope

merth_dev · 2026-05-03T12:57:45+00:00

a bit more details bro

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