... usually use the Claude or OpenAI max plans ($200 a month) but this month I wanted to try out deepseek with it's usage based. I was using deepseek for API calls since it's usage costs vs value is the best. I code with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and it does really well, surprisingly. It does much of what I did with top models with OpenAI and Claude. The reason for testing usage based is I realized with ... ... from economies of scale, compute costs per user lower with more users. So we find its a good model where everyone wins. Comment from Umair(@umairnadeem): IMO the entire thread is overthinking this. the real question isn't SaaS vs