Yes
After that, my company switched the entire engineering department to Azure hosted DeepSeek4.1 and costs were cut by 3/4
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costs were cut by 3/4
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Helped: Switching to cheaper DeepSeek model with identical output quality.
… Both DS4.1 Flash and Opus5.5 produced nearly identical outputs. After that, my company switched the entire engineering department to Azure hosted DeepSeek4.1 and costs were cut by 3/4. So far, no one has really noticed the change.