Heavy AI user's cost ledger: 100+ agents a day, $70 of DeepSeek in two days
simmon_charlie · x · 2026-09-06
A heavy AI user (writing as community promo) shares his full-time AI workflow and costs: three $200/month ChatGPT subscriptions felt slow and quota-capped, so he switched to DeepSeek — running 100+ agents a day burned ¥500 in two days on v4 pro, with API billing avoiding mid-task cutoffs. He buys cheap Google AI Pro accounts via promo deals, has codex write multi-account switching scripts, auto-fails-over accounts below 10% quota in a CLI, and recommends the open-source orca terminal. Caveats: Google phone verification limits, Claude bans, and complex tasks still need GPT-6/codex despite the slow speed.
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