DeepSeek recently officially raised its prices. As someone whose token usage was closing in on 100M tokens last quarter (see [My Token Usage Exploded 13× in Three Months]), I didn’t pay much attention at first — after all, DeepSeek was already very cheap, and even the raised price was still lower than the official price announced when V4 first launched. But I underestimated my usage: after a day of real-world testing at the new prices, it became clear that the cost is genuinely hard for an individual to bear. If I didn’t find a way around it, I’d be working just to pay for tokens.

I recently worked on a small project: putting the Linux version of Claude Science into a Docker container, paired with an API Bridge so it can run through third-party API backends without needing to hold an Anthropic API Key directly.

The process was more eventful than expected—also quite interesting. Here’s a record of it.

Lately I’ve been working on integrating several AI applications, which means I need to switch between different models. That’s when I discovered a problem — the APIs of OpenAI and Anthropic are incompatible.