DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on Aug 21 — the V4 family's first native vision endpoint, at the same Flash-tier pricing as the text model. A working marketer's first-day take on what to hand it, what to keep on Opus, and what to watch out for while it's still experimental.
OpenRouter gives marketers one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for 300+ LLMs. Here's the actual workflow I run for content production, why my bill dropped from $1,840 to $890 a quarter, and the three catches that surprised me.
