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5 Billion Tokens for $198: My Real 4-Month DeepSeek Bill
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The receipts (June–September)
| Month | Cost | Tokens | API requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| June | $112.78 | 3.68B | 9,637 |
| July | $22.49 | 517M | 2,069 |
| August | $15.11 | 155M | 998 |
| September | $47.80 | 682M | 5,481 |
| Total | $198.18 | 5.03B | 18,185 |
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My take
Price-wise DeepSeek is still the cheapest, I'm on deepseek-v4-pro. Started with deepseek-tui agent, no search, so I guess that's cheaper. Then switched to harness with DeepSeek's search on, so probably a bit more. First two months were mostly network security testing, these two months mostly collecting material and doing data analysis. Anyway, 4 months and only $200 — nothing else comes close.
Worth it.