> Is the only advantage the lower hardware requirements, thus cost?
Yes, but the keep thing is it performs nearly as well as models that are 100x as expensive.
The lower price drastically changes possible utility. For example, I've been rocking RooCode since R1 came out. R1 can do about 95% of the tasks Claude can, but at 1% of the cost. I might burn $10 to $20 per hour on Claude tokens. While spending less than $1 on Deepseek when doing the same task.
Yes, but the keep thing is it performs nearly as well as models that are 100x as expensive.
The lower price drastically changes possible utility. For example, I've been rocking RooCode since R1 came out. R1 can do about 95% of the tasks Claude can, but at 1% of the cost. I might burn $10 to $20 per hour on Claude tokens. While spending less than $1 on Deepseek when doing the same task.