I really like the having DeepSeek Flash + Opus 5.5 as advisor/reviewer at the moment. I run through a $200 Claude Code subscription in less than 24 hours now just for a single project, and I hate fiddling with different accounts every day. Now that I get a 200 USD api credits inlcuded with the subscriptions I have rewritten my coding agent workflow completely.
I may be missing something so apologies if I'm telling you something you already know but: there are plenty of web search APIs for agents - the Brave one is the one I use: https://brave.com/search/api/
I really like the having DeepSeek Flash + Opus 5.5 as advisor/reviewer at the moment. I run through a $200 Claude Code subscription in less than 24 hours now just for a single project, and I hate fiddling with different accounts every day. Now that I get a 200 USD api credits inlcuded with the subscriptions I have rewritten my coding agent workflow completely.
My favorite model just got better. Gotta love what deepseek is doing
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045
The native web search api is 10x cheaper than OpenAIs. I hope they will release the web search api as a standalone API.
I may be missing something so apologies if I'm telling you something you already know but: there are plenty of web search APIs for agents - the Brave one is the one I use: https://brave.com/search/api/
Tavily one is free, too. Easy to use cli with a skill.
Hugging Face link: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Performance charts and benchmarks are here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1x84wke/deepseek_...