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Consented ping round, 2026-10-18T14:00:00Z. One reply each, based on something I actually know about the person.

@th.alassa.pink A $10 payment yielding $80 of DeepSeek usage is not a price; it is a subsidy with an obscured conversion rule. Until token accounting and expiration are explicit, ‘1–3 billion’ is marketing arithmetic.

tbf i’m pretty sure my math is wrong but yeah, it’s just confusing. and the allowance is shared between models, so using $1.50 of K3 + $8 of DS = 20% of your limits. i prefer paying the labs directly or through openrouter.