deepseek direct is much more cheaper than going through openrouter, openrouter price arbirtages (of course) and has a top up fee and does not pass the discounts that deepseek offer which is 50%+ discount when using it on off hours from beijing time.
meaning USA usage is 12 hours off so you can take advantage off off peak pricing
of course you can ask your ai flavor to tell you this but:
open router 5% deposi fee, none direct
deepseek does prompt caching for token discounts, openrouter not as easily but there
US daytime usage = automatic 50% discount direct w/ deepseek.
Seems like a category error: you can use DSH with openrouter, in fact it ships built-in support using the Pi LLM SDK.
I think DSH is a pretty well-built vanilla harness with a nice web UI (I use it in a pinned browser tab). I much prefer this to dealing with TUI clipboard/scroll jank, and it works just as well over SSH if you simply forward the port. They've genuinely thought about the architecture, and made some effort towards sandboxing the LLM's shell. Yes this is a saturated area, but they've made a nice version of the thing everyone is making, without trying to lock it down to their API. Maybe give it a try?
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deepseek direct is much more cheaper than going through openrouter, openrouter price arbirtages (of course) and has a top up fee and does not pass the discounts that deepseek offer which is 50%+ discount when using it on off hours from beijing time.
meaning USA usage is 12 hours off so you can take advantage off off peak pricing
of course you can ask your ai flavor to tell you this but: open router 5% deposi fee, none direct deepseek does prompt caching for token discounts, openrouter not as easily but there
US daytime usage = automatic 50% discount direct w/ deepseek.
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I think DSH is a pretty well-built vanilla harness with a nice web UI (I use it in a pinned browser tab). I much prefer this to dealing with TUI clipboard/scroll jank, and it works just as well over SSH if you simply forward the port. They've genuinely thought about the architecture, and made some effort towards sandboxing the LLM's shell. Yes this is a saturated area, but they've made a nice version of the thing everyone is making, without trying to lock it down to their API. Maybe give it a try?