So everyone has their preferred way of doing it.

1. I go direct to source, i.e. DS platform, I find it cheaper than paying the openrouter tax -- I also switch it up a bit

2. I built a local LLM router, that I update with new profiles that have my preferred provider of the week (lowest token costs/speed) with fallbacks, like mimo --> DS4 etc.. if there is overloading,

3. I use 3 diff harnesses, CC/Codex + Opencode -- they all talk to each other through a custom rig system that routes messages between llms using a Rust backed structured JSON system

Not saying this is the best, it's just what I like and works for me^.

I can flow quite naturally between Opus/Astra/K3/GLM/MiMo/DS/etc.. this way and often do...more so these days with subs no longer great as they used to be.

doesn't DS train on your prompts when you go through their platform?

Thanks for being the only person to raise this point.

We are cooked, aren't we.

Whatever openrouter puts me on, running in pi (though I do all comms over my xmpp wrapper).

I'm using DeepSeek's own API with opencode. The pricing is absurdly good.

Deepseek harness is great!