DeepSeek v4 Pro API with Cline burning tokens like crazy

740k token for writing a fairly straightforward implementation plan (was mostly a test) which accounted for 8c. How the hell can it burn so many tokens so fast? Is Cline the issue? Should I switch to flash? On paper it is cheap, but 8c every 5 minutes and it's cheaper to get gpt 5.5 20$ per month which is way smarter. What are you take guys? Thanks submitted by /u/Ready_Performance_35 [link] [comments]