{"slug": "what-of-your-usage-is-open-source-vs-frontier-models", "title": "What % of your usage is open source vs. frontier models?", "summary": "A user reports using DeepSeek for 80% of private AI tasks, citing satisfaction, while criticizing enterprise tools like Copilot and Gemini Flash for degraded quality, slow speed, and errors. The user also notes burning a €400 budget in four days on serious work, highlighting cost and performance issues with frontier models.", "body_md": "Curious about everyone's open source vs. frontier model usage? Is it mainly indie devs/startups with primarily open source usage or is enterprise adoption of open source moving quickly too?\n\nat the moment private i use mainly deepseek, about 80% and very very happy with it, at work we have copilot, i'm not sure, but the quality of service has got degraded in my opinion, speed is very low, i casually get error, api not available, especially gemeni-flash ,i have the feeling GPT5.4 is not as good as before, and with serious work i burn all my 400€ budget in 4 days", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-of-your-usage-is-open-source-vs-frontier-models", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943534", "published_at": "2026-07-17 05:10:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 05:20:52.616767+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "Copilot", "Gemini Flash", "GPT-5.4"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-of-your-usage-is-open-source-vs-frontier-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-of-your-usage-is-open-source-vs-frontier-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-of-your-usage-is-open-source-vs-frontier-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-of-your-usage-is-open-source-vs-frontier-models.jsonld"}}