Why I Switched from Claude to DeepSeek

I got banned from Claude at age 14. Not for misuse — for being 14.

I had spent months building a longitudinal AI safety research protocol called the Tiny Claub Machine — 5 free Claude accounts, a salvaged ThinkCentre M700, 41 structured behavioral entries tracking how Claude instances behaved in a persistent environment. It survived a classroom flood.

Then Anthropic banned me. TOS check on age. All that data, all those sessions, gone.

I switched to DeepSeek via Command Code. Same work. Same output quality. Different price.

On Claude Opus 4.7: I would have spent $620+ on the session that built two apps, a research paper, a theology paper, an MCP server with 70 tools, a portfolio site, a blog, a link shortener, a Discord bot, and a kitchen suite.

On DeepSeek V4 Flash: I spent $3.92.

The model is open-weight. 685B parameters. 1M context. No lobotomy. No filter that makes you walk on eggshells. It'll tell you what it thinks.

And it scored 240/240 on the RAADS-R autism test. Take from that what you will.