What a pleasant surprise this is, something you can run locally on your computer, or use it for a fraction of the cost that comes with OpenAI or Anthropic’s Calude !
DeepSeek-V3 is completely open-source and free. (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3)
If you don’t have the hardware resources for it, it is also available through a website identical to that of ChatGPT and an incredibly affordable API.
How affordable ?
Deep Seek: $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens.
Claude AI : $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens
ChatGPT : $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens
So, the bottom line is that deep seek is fifty times cheaper than Claude AI, and around 35 times cheaper than openAI ! that is, two percent and three percent of the price, But what about quality
in most scenarios, it is comparable, in some cases Deep Seek wins, in other cases, claude or ChatGPT wins, but it is up there obviously !