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A billion tokens for ten dollars

October 19, 2026

For value for money, nothing beats DeepSeek. Where else can you get a billion proper, usable tokens for $10?

And it's so fast that ten of my agents blasted through a fucking billion tokens in a couple of hours.

With Claude (Opus 5.4 on the x20 subscription), the same thing took all day and cost about the same.

Codex (6.1 Sol, $200 subscription) ate through the weekly limit in a couple of days, barely managing 300M a day.

So my goal now is ten billion tokens a day. Developer productivity is measured in tokens these days, right?

But I don't have that kind of cash!

DeepSeek usage: 1,033,653,641 tokens, 5498 requests, and a cost of $10.44

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