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We have Copilot and can select between various OpenAI and Anthropic models, and when I accidentally select the “wrong” one it takes me awhile to notice.

I use Claude Opus at work and DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on my personal projects. For the kind of work I'm doing, they're basically interchangeable and DeepSeek costs 3% what Claude does.

https://openrouter.ai/compare/anthropic/claude-opus-5.5/deep...

How does it change if you’re building via subscription?

what if the alternative is much cheaper?

Arguably, it was cheaper.

By the way, we get way more value from our Anthropic subscriptions than any Chinese subscription.

Opus 5.5 is great, but you are kidding yourself if Deepseek 4.1 flash isn't as good as good for 99% of coding tasks. Anthropic (and OpenAI) are between a hammer and an anvil in terms of good enough local models being able to run performantly on current and next gen Apple hardware.

How do you define value?