Topic

deepseek

2 articles

Cheap coding models that hold up for agent work (October 2026)

Eight low-cost models you can run a coding agent on, with official list prices, context limits and the catches: DeepSeek's peak hours, GPT-6 Luna's tool-calling rule, MiniMax's 512K tier and Gemini's January price change.

#cheap models #deepseek #glm

Tokens Team · 3 Oct 2026

Engineering9 min read

Prompt caching explained: how cache-hit pricing works across providers

How prompt caching is priced at DeepSeek, Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot, Alibaba and others, why coding agents benefit more than chat apps, what quietly breaks cache hits, and what you can and can't control through a gateway.

#prompt caching #cost #claude

Tokens Team · 3 Oct 2026