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  1. pelagicAustral · · focus · HN ↗
    Is there a cheaper model than Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) that maybe/kind-of is on-par with it? For me it works really good but hit the limit in two hours tops... last week was the first time I hit the weekly limit and had to wait 4 days... Claude patches OK, but that is also getting drained really fast these days...
    1. TomGarden · · focus · HN ↗
      is this on the $20-ish sub? I hear ultra lasts for a very long time
      1. pelagicAustral · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah, 20... I was going to try Deepseek later on, just chuck 20 in there and see how good it does, and how far I can go as well...
        1. TomGarden · · focus · HN ↗
          yeah I enjoy the speed of Gemini, but I also just have the low tier one (I use the 20x Claude and Codex subs for most of my work). For iteration, Gemini is so much fun, but Opus 5.5 is quite fast, as is sol. If you're on a budget, deepseek does look great
          1. pelagicAustral · · focus · HN ↗
            Yeah, I mean, I think in theory I could push it to the next tier on Gemini, but at the same time I wouldn't mind trying something else, since maybe my workloads are not really that smart and I am wasting a lot of computational power on something a cheaper model with similar capabilities can do.
    2. montroser · · focus · HN ↗
      DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is your answer.
      1. pelagicAustral · · focus · HN ↗
        Ah OK, yeah, I was actually going to go for that earlier, I'll check it out once I get home, thanks!
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