Yes
I was running deepseek v4.1 pretty much non stop during work hours, with heavy tool/mcp usage and finding it very difficult to spend more than $75 in a month
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spend more than $75 in a month
In the thread “Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Managing cache and using compaction to avoid invalidation.
… Letting context get to 500k and invalidating their cache every 10 tool calls because they have no providor fallback settings. I was running deepseek v4.1 pretty much non stop during work hours, with heavy tool/mcp usage and finding it very difficult to spend more than $75 in a month. Also the cheapest providers on Openroutrr can often have terrible cache hit %, short TTLs resulting in their effective price being much more expensive than people realize. …