Hello.
On November 8, the hourly limit for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (120 requests) and the 20 enabled Qwen3.7 Plus calls were exhausted very quickly, after which the requests went to credits. Please help me figure out if this is normal for my use case.
What I checked on my end, based on the client logs:
Prompt caching is not working. The cache_read_tokens field is zero in every single call, including repeated steps within the same session. Each step resends the entire context.
Usage increases with dialog length. Across 18 sessions on DeepSeek, the median input is 149,000 tokens per step, with up to 254,000 in long sessions. The input-to-output ratio is about 400 to 1.
The main volume is not the dialog text, but the resending of tool results and tool schemas. The schemas of three connected
