DeepSeek isn’t just open-sourcing another coding agent.
The interesting part is the architecture: models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes and even the UI can be swapped or extended as plugins. Could this “everything is a plugin” approach become the VS Code extension model
Old agent stack: a different framework locks you into a different model, different tools, different sandbox, different UI.
New agent stack: DeepSeek open-sourced an agent harness where all four of those are plugins — swap any one without rebuilding the rest. 144,000 GitHub
Qwen 3.8-27B + deepseek V4 pro + V4 flash are free on orcarouter
The free stack All three models live under the -free suffix on Qwen3.8-27B (open-weight, 262K) + DeepSeek V4 Pro + DeepSeek V4 Flash One signup, one key, zero dollars and no card
$0.28 for a million output tokens from DeepSeek V4 Flash.
$50 from Claude Fable 5. Different classes, and that's the point. 178x is the price of never asking which class your task actually needs. Your ticket classifier is not writing a dissertation. Route it like it isn't.
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