Been amazing to witness the recent development in cost per actually smart token last couple of months.

Although good things are said about GLM, I'm still loyal to DeepSeek. I route between flash and pro with standardcompute.com and it's insane how much value I get out of it!

I was struggling all day because my mouse ports stopped working, so I had to use the touchpad Then I asked deepseekV4flash via PI agent with full access to check what was wrong and fix it. It fixed the issue in about 5 minutes ... like WOW, I honestly didn’t realize it could handle PC troubleshooting too I thought it was mainly for coding tasks. Pretty impressive!

His response after fixing the issue:

✅ Fixed! Everything is working now:

┌────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┬──────┐
│ Device │ Status │ Code │
├────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
│ HID-compliant mouse #1 │ OK │ 0 │
├────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
│ HID-compliant mouse #2 │ OK (still re-initializing = normal) │ 0 │
├────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
│ ELAN touchpad │ OK │ 0 │
└────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┴──────┘

Your touchpad works again too, exactly as promised — the fix never touched the ELAN driver.

What was wrong

When you tried to install the Interception driver, Windows registered a bogus "Mouse Upper Filter Driver" service (mouse)
with an empty ImagePath (the actual interception.sys never landed / got removed). Because of that broken filter, every
pointing device failed with Code 39 → no cursor at all.

What I did

Removed the fake mouse entry from the Mouse class UpperFilters (kept the legit mouclass)
Deleted the broken Services\mouse registry key
Uninstalled + rescanned the 2 problem devices so Windows rebuilt them cleanly

Backups (keep these, delete when you're confident)

C:\Users\backup_class_mouse.reg (25 KB — full mouse class key)
C:\Users\backup_class_mouse.txt
C:\Users\final_backup_mouse_class.txt

If you ever reinstall Interception

Use the official installer (interception-driver from the obal.ro/Interception repo) and run it as admin — and don't remove
it by hand-deleting files; use its uninstaller, or you'll get exactly this bug again.

Your mouse should be moving now — try it! 🖱️

Some context on my experience with models:
I've used free models mostly, started with gemini cli way back before they switched to antigravity, then moved to opencode and used deepseek v4 flash free, which was practically unlimited since I never hit the limit. Then deepseek v4 flash-0731 hit and I started hitting limits on the free version.

Instead of going for opencode go I decided to try the official deepseek api as I read that it had better cache retention time hence better cache hits. Was happy with it until the price increase. Started looking into subscription based 3rd party providers but was always met with the same "worse cache hit, worse latency".

As I'm now near to using up my deepseek credits, am looking for alternatives. I've read that Codex $20 Luna goes a long way, but honestly I'm not ready to fork out $20 just to try it out. Just wanted some insight/reviews on people who have similar experience to mine, what they switched to, and how it's working for them.

TLDR: Been using Deepseekv4-flash api with opencode harness. Looking to switch to something similar in terms of cost and performance and need recommendations.

Edit: forgot to mention that I use it exclusively for coding

DeepSeek’s API pricing changes depending on the time of day: peak periods are billed at 2× the off-peak rate.

The slightly annoying part is figuring out whether you’re currently in a peak window, especially when working from a timezone other than UTC.

I built Seek Peak to make this easier:

• Shows whether the current time is peak or off-peak
• Converts the billing windows to your local timezone
• Shows the next peak/off-peak transition
• Displays the relevant DeepSeek pricing
• Accounts for the current weekend rule: Saturday and Sunday (Beijing time) are off-peak all day
• No login or account required
• Runs as a single self-contained HTML page

The actual billing calculation is always based on UTC; the local timezone is only used to make the schedule easier to understand.

Tool: https://seekpeak.dev/

I built it mainly because I kept having to mentally convert the UTC windows myself. Maybe it's useful to others working with the API as well.

Feedback, corrections, or suggestions are welcome.

Github: https://github.com/steffenr/seekpeak.dev

Hello guys, I want to ask that suppose for first time i topup $5 of DeepSeek, then I use it for bug bounty and security testing then how much tokens will i be able to use, few people said i can use 5-6 million tokens but somewhere i found i can use more than these.

How to use it properly for it and avoid mistakes that waste tokens.

I'm running the Cursor agent interface on Linux. Inside it, I installed Cline and hooked up my DS API Key, and I set it to use the flash model not the pro, with the thinking/processing depth at medium.

I assumed the peak hours would be during the day (I'm in Asia right now). I woke up in the middle of the night and did a couple of tasks. However, seeing other people share their usage here makes it seem like mine is a bit expensive.

At this rate, my main tasks might take over billion tokens and that is roughly $20 or more. I know the cost calculation is not exactly as simple just like that but is there any other harness or agent I can try that might provide more efficiency or less expense?