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DeepSeek reviews
No ZeroCrew member has reviewed DeepSeek yet. Here's what people say about DeepSeek elsewhere, summarized with links to every post.
What people say about DeepSeek elsewhere
Praised for
- Extremely low usage cost
- Cheap caching suits agent workflows
- Strong coding and agent results for price
- Solid reasoning on hard problems
Complaints
- Steep recent price increases
- Data sent to servers in China
- Slower output than rivals
- Hard and costly to self-host
Summarized by AI from 8 public posts on Hacker News, October 29, 2026. Not reviews from ZeroCrew founders.
- DeepSeek v4 Hacker News
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update Hacker News
- DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent Hacker News
- DeepSeek API Pricing Update Hacker News
- DeepSeek up to 1000% price hike is live Hacker News
- DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] Hacker News
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