u/Independent_Aioli_48

Guys, I’m trying to understand something. I’ve read quite a few posts about DeepSeek price increase tomorrow.

But my understanding is that these are open-source models, which means any provider can host them and offer the service themselves, right? DeepSeek doesn’t have the pricing power to control how all these different providers price access to the models.

So why is there such a panic around the price increase? Why are people so worried about it? DeepSeek can only increase the price of its own API, correct?

Guys, I’m genuinely trying to find a good use case for a model of around 30b, say Muse Glimmer.

The first thing that comes to mind is some kind of summarization task. But to be fair, I can just do that using something like DeepSeek Flash V4 on OpenRouter. It costs nothing. So why would I bother routing it to my private model?

The second thing I think of is coding, but my codebase is massive. I don’t want to use a cheap model and end up making pretty bad applications because these models generally fail to see the bigger picture.

Are there any good use cases you guys find particularly interesting that are actually worth using those local models for?