DeepSeek

Made Crystal Clear

A practical, visual guide to DeepSeek's reasoning models, API, and running them yourself

DeepSeek delivers near-frontier reasoning at a price that keeps dropping once you stack the off-peak window and cache hits, and this book teaches you to use it well and honestly. You will learn the model lineup (V4 Pro and V4 Flash, and why there is no confirmed R2), how reasoning mode and effort levels work, and how to make the price genuinely low without guessing which rate you are paying. You will also get the part most guides skip: self-hosting removes the data-residency problem but not the documented censorship bias, and hosted API, the consumer app, and local weights are three completely different privacy stories.

Pages

126

Level

Beginner to advanced

Status

Available