Proposal: Pause usage/boycott until fair Freebucks pricing is restored (15 Freebucks for DS4)

[hazemmrad17]

What you are seeing

With the recent changes to the Freebucks economy, running top-tier models like DeepSeek V4 (DS4) has become increasingly restrictive and expensive under the new credit allocation system.

Previously, the 15 Freebucks rate made DS4 accessible for day-to-day development work. Under the current pricing model, free and light users are priced out of meaningful multi-step agentic workflows in just a few prompts.

Proposal / Community Call

1. Revert DS4 Pricing: Restore the baseline price of DeepSeek V4 back to 15 Freebucks (or equivalent proportional pricing).
2. Community Action: I'm encouraging community members who feel this change ruins the viability of the tool to pause usage/boycott the paid/Freebucks system until the maintainers address the unsustainable pricing spike.

Model involved

deepseek-v4

[reuniware]

But how long has this Freebucks system been around?

[hazemmrad17]

It hasn't been around long at all they only started rolling out the Paidbucks system over the last week or two as a replacement/rebrand for the legacy session system

[VelocyRaptor357]

Remember a few days ago when Mimo was free and unmetered? They are squeezing every day, multiple times a day. Every update make the software slower and more expensive.

[dzg7pl1]

What you are seeing

With the recent changes to the Freebucks economy, running top-tier models like DeepSeek V4 (DS4) has become increasingly restrictive and expensive under the new credit allocation system.

Previously, the 15 Freebucks rate made DS4 accessible for day-to-day development work. Under the current pricing model, free and light users are priced out of meaningful multi-step agentic workflows in just a few prompts.

Proposal / Community Call

1. Revert DS4 Pricing: Restore the baseline price of DeepSeek V4 back to 15 Freebucks (or equivalent proportional pricing).
2. Community Action: I'm encouraging community members who feel this change ruins the viability of the tool to pause usage/boycott the paid/Freebucks system until the maintainers address the unsustainable pricing spike.

Model involved

deepseek-v4

DS is only 30 FB during what DS class as peak hours. Outside of this, it reverts to 15 FB.

[oph07smart]

Well according to yesterday, Deepseek had decreased its price significantly check DeepSeek official news I presume.. Also freebuff needs to add more models too like perhaps DeepSeek 0813 or Qwen3.8Max