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> One huge problem with these "cheap" models is that they happen to be more expensive in the typical agent workflow if the provider does not support caching.

DeepSeek supports caching and cache hits are a tenth of the cost.

$0.028/M for cache hit

$0.28/M for cache miss

$0.42/M for output

— https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250929



I auto disqualify the chinese first party endpoints.

If they are okay for you, then sure go ahead. Enjoy the caching.

What other provider is going to support it?


> I auto disqualify the chinese first party endpoints.

Why?


I’m guessing it’s something along the lines of this: https://youtu.be/kYiUY07TzS4


by your logic then you have to disqualify openai and anthropic first party endpoints for testing gpt and claude...


There is no bug in my logic. Anthropic and OpenAI are not chinese first party providers.




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