Does anyone actually pay API costs out of their own pocket? It's about 10x cheaper to just get a codex or chat gpt subscription, it's so heavily subsidized compared to the API that I'm sure it would be cheaper to use frontier models on a subscription plan rather than paying API prices for deepseek flash.
Otherwise DeepSeek Flash 4.1 is dirt cheap (other "Flash" models are not that expensive either). I pay (very few dollars) out of my own pocket.
There are many things where having an API Key is necessary.
Maybe I’ve missed the boat though: is there now a method to use an api key to access a subscription?
You can't use an API key on subscriptions, but I've gotten around it using the `codex exec` command to run requests outside the CLI or GUI if you're already authenticated on that machine. Won't work for all cases, but I've never ran into a limitation in my use case of not having an API key.
I’ll look into this. But there is no universal solution. I find this to be quite limiting. I understand this is on purpose. If you want to automate, you need to pay more to have an api key.
It’s a good thing we have access to those very cheap and useful Chinese models.
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Otherwise DeepSeek Flash 4.1 is dirt cheap (other "Flash" models are not that expensive either). I pay (very few dollars) out of my own pocket.
There are many things where having an API Key is necessary.
Maybe I’ve missed the boat though: is there now a method to use an api key to access a subscription?
jrflo · · focus · HN ↗
LeBit · · focus · HN ↗
It’s a good thing we have access to those very cheap and useful Chinese models.