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Every plan is ranked by one number: how many dollars of usage, at DeepSeek's list price, each dollar you pay buys. Promotions, subscriptions, cache-hit rates and the fine print are all counted.
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Best right now
Deals tracked 16·DeepSeek's own list price = 1x
The ledger
What one dollar actually buys.
16 of 16
The cheapest place to run Kimi K3 right now
volcengine.com·verified 2026-09-20
Kimi K3, Doubao and other hosted models
¥49.00 → ¥800.00
DeepSeek
~16.3x
Mimo Pro
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Mimo Flash
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TokenPlan Pro: $68 a month, double it off-peak
alibabacloud.com·verified 2026-09-20
Qwen and other hosted models
$68.00 → $857.00
DeepSeek
12.6x
Mimo Pro
—
Mimo Flash
—
200+ models; most endpoints capped at 262,000 context
$20.00 → $200.00
DeepSeek
10x
Mimo Pro
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Mimo Flash
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM, Qwen and more
$1.00 → $10.00
DeepSeek
10x
Mimo Pro
10x
Mimo Flash
10x
Agent Pass: $0.99 first month, $10 of usage
tokenharbor.ai·verified 2026-09-20
GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and more
$0.99 → $10.00
DeepSeek
10x
Mimo Pro
10x
Mimo Flash
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM, Qwen, MiMo V2.6 and more
$20.00 → $150.00
DeepSeek
7.5x
Mimo Pro
—
Mimo Flash
3.8x
Go plan: $8 in the first month for $60 of usage — 7.5x
open-design.ai·verified 2026-09-30
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, MiMo V2.6 Pro and Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, Kimi, Hunyuan
$8.00 → $60.00
DeepSeek
7.5x
Mimo Pro
7.5x
Mimo Flash
7.5x
GOAT plan: $10 a month for $70 of model credits
commandcode.ai·verified 2026-09-20
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM, Qwen, Kimi, GPT-5.6, 30+ models
$10.00 → $70.00
DeepSeek
7x
Mimo Pro
2x
Mimo Flash
6.7x
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, MiMo V2.6 Pro and Flash
$10.00 → $66.70
DeepSeek
6.7x
Mimo Pro
4x
Mimo Flash
4x
Go plan: $10 for $60 of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash a month
opencode.ai·verified 2026-09-27
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and other open models
$10.00 → $60.00
DeepSeek
6x
Mimo Pro
1.5x
Mimo Flash
6x
GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and more
$9.99 → $35.00
DeepSeek
3.5x
Mimo Pro
3.5x
Mimo Flash
—
Routed across many providers
$10.00 → $30.00
DeepSeek
3x
Mimo Pro
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Mimo Flash
—
Token Plan: do not buy it, the API is twice the value
mimo.mi.com·verified 2026-09-30
MiMo V2.6 Pro and V2.6 Flash (plus ASR and TTS)
$6.00 → $5.95
DeepSeek
1.35x
Mimo Pro
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Mimo Flash
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Pay as you go: MiMo V2.6 at half price, DeepSeek only 20% off
openmodel.ai·verified 2026-09-28
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, MiMo V2.6 Pro/Flash, Claude, GPT, GLM, Kimi, Qwen and more
$1.00 → $1.25
DeepSeek
1.25x
Mimo Pro
2x
Mimo Flash
2x
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DeepSeek
Official pay-as-you-go — the baseline every deal is measured against
api.deepseek.com·verified 2026-09-20
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro
$10.00 → $10.00
DeepSeek
1x
Mimo Pro
—
Mimo Flash
—
Off the ranking — billing moved to weekly
hyper.charm.land·verified 2026-10-18
Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 flash
$20.00 → $360.00
DeepSeek
~18x
Mimo Pro
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Mimo Flash
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20x is not always better than 7x. Expiry and rate caps decide the real answer, so read the caveats.
Rank changes
What moved on the ledger
Every time a multiplier or a rank changed, with the reason. Ranks are on the DeepSeek column at the time.
2026-10-18
HyperTaken down~18xoff the board
Off the board. Billing moved from monthly to weekly, and Hyper's app now says credits refresh every week at Sunday 00:00 UTC. The 18x was a monthly daily-refresh subscription, so it no longer describes what you pay. Volcano Engine takes first until this is re-rated.
2026-09-30
B.AIRe-checked6.7x#10 → #10
Filled in the MiMo columns: 4x on MiMo V2.6 Pro and Flash, but only when the top-up is paid in crypto.
2026-09-30
OpenDesignNew7.5xnew at #8
New: OpenDesign's Go plan, $8 for the first month and $60 of credits — 7.5x on DeepSeek, MiMo Pro and MiMo Flash alike.
2026-09-30
XiaomiNew1.35xnew at #13
New: MiMo's Token Plan. Its own API at half price is 2x, so the subscription is not worth buying.
2026-09-28
OpenModelChanged8x → 1.25x#7 ↓ #13
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is only 20% off ($0.12 / $0.48 vs the official $0.15 / $0.60), so 1.25x, not ~8x. MiMo V2.6 stays 2x at half price.
What to buy
What I would buy at each budget
One setup per budget, each step building on the last. This is my own call, not a ranking of multipliers.
Updated 2026-10-20
$0 Free
01Install CodeBuddy and use DeepSeek for free. At zero dollars, nothing else comes close.
CodeBuddyFreeWhich models are free changes with Tencent's billing — check the model list after you install.
$1/mo
02The cheapest way in: one dollar buys ten dollars of usage.
Command Code Go$1This plan is built for their own CLI. Wired into another tool as an API it draws a penalty, so use it through the CLI.
$5/mo
03The same Go plan on five accounts.
- Command Code Go×5$5
One plan per account. In my experience five accounts is still safe; past that, I would not risk it.
$15/mo
04Add ChatGPT Plus through GamsGo, far below the official $20.
- Command Code Go×5$5
ChatGPT Plus (GamsGo)$10A shared account: others on it may see your chats, and sharing breaks OpenAI's terms. Keep anything private out of it.
Total$15
$35/mo
05Claude Code on top. This is the setup I would actually run.
Total$35
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Over $35
Past this point it depends on how much you run. Compare multipliers on the ledger and build your own mix.
Free credits
Credit you can claim for signing up. Most of it is free; Hive's turns $5 into $100.
Modal
$30/mo
$30 of GPU compute every month on the free Starter plan. Run an open model yourself (vLLM and friends) and the tokens cost you nothing.
It is compute, not tokens: you pay per GPU-second for what you host. Unused credit does not roll over.
Claim it ↗
Hive
$100 once
$5 on the Hive Portal turns into $100 of credit once a payment method is on file. The API is OpenAI-compatible: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash are both on it.
How many tokens that is
- GLM 5.3 Flash2B60x
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash833M50x
Input tokens at Hive's rate, and the multiplier against the list price it strikes through. Output costs 3-4x more, so a real mix lands below the token ceiling.
What I saw in the portal; Hive's own pricing page only promises "$50+ in free credits after adding a payment method". A one-time sign-up promo.
Claim it ↗
Model tiers
Coding model tiers
Ranked for coding only, from running them myself — not a benchmark, and price is not part of it. Within a tier, further left is better.
Updated 2026-10-20
Models marked ▶ have a recording of them building Super Mario — tap to watch.
S
A
- 2
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI - 3
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic
- 2
A-
- 1GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI
- 1
B+
- 1
MiMo V2.6 ProXiaomi
- 1
B
- 2
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek - 4
Step 5 PreviewStepFun
- 2
C+
- 1MiMo V2.6 FlashXiaomi
- 2
Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle
- 1
C
- 1
Muse Spark 1.3Meta - 3
MiniMax M3MiniMax
- 1
D+
D
Solar 4 ProUpstage
D-
MotiffKanyun
Best-value combos
The model mixes I think give the most for the money right now.
No. 1
- S
Claude Opus 5.5 - B+
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
- S
No. 2
- SClaude Opus 5.5
- A
Gemini 4 Argon
- S
Site reviews
What I actually think of each one.
The ledger gives you the number. These give you the verdict.
Reviewed 2026-09-20
Neutralverboo.ai: the tokens really are unlimited. Two concurrent requests is the actual plan.
A flat monthly fee that suits someone who runs it continuously. If you spike dozens of sessions at once and then idle for hours, it is the wrong shape — every tier from $24 to $269 carries the same two concurrent requests, so money does not buy the burst.
Reviewed 2026-09-20
Not recommendedopenference.com: the models are real, it is slow, and it keeps cutting out
The models are genuine and the decode speed is normal. What is not normal is that a paid request runs for ten minutes and then returns nothing at all. Not recommended.
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The multiplier is the headline. Your bill is decided by expiry, rate caps, per-model allowances and whether the provider is still there next month.
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