
· Asep Alazhari · AI Tools
I Underestimated DeepSeek V4: Here is My Honest Review
My first DeepSeek experience was bad, but DeepSeek V4 Flash via OpenCode changed that. Here is why it might be the best cheap AI model for coding right now.

My first DeepSeek experience was bad, but DeepSeek V4 Flash via OpenCode changed that. Here is why it might be the best cheap AI model for coding right now.

I spent two weeks testing Xiaomi MiMo after comparing ChatGPT Go, DeepSeek v4, and OpenCode Go. Here is why MiMo won on price, speed, and multimodal support.

AI API costs keep rising, even Chinese models got expensive. I tried Ollama on Docker with Gemma 4 E4B as a free local alternative for agentic workflows.