DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously • Hacker News Board

Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by MRiabov » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

thiago_fm wrote: post #2

It's exactly this. Not only this, we might be running very soon into cheap compute soon given the current CAPEX of all hyperscalers. DeepSeek is model that you can run anywhere, meaning that any datacenter/company could run it at a price that would give them a margin taking in account running costs of the datacenter + depreciation. I'm very sure we're overbuilding capacity, and we'll find out around 2027. Those open…

As a ML/LLM engineer in a ecommerce analytics SaaS company, I can't stress how useful LLMs are for me, and gladly - for a 5-man company our LLM expenses are 1.5k including coding agents. Great ROI.

Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by ironqcold » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

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Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by real-zephex » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 8:58 PM UTC

i couldn't even finish celebrate processing 54 million tokens for just $0.49 and they dropped this bomb

Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by andrewvl » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 10:23 PM UTC

alexwwang wrote: post #8

andrewvl wrote: post #6

Is DeepSeek a DeepSeek or it is cloude sonnet 3.5?

Show me if you could. I am interested in your answer.

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Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by alexwwang » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 1:25 AM UTC

real-zephex wrote: post #23

i couldn't even finish celebrate processing 54 million tokens for just $0.49 and they dropped this bomb

54M tok is really not a big number, tbh. Hurry up dude, consume 54B before the boots touch down.

Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by softwaredoug » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

There’s not going to be much of a price difference from Luna (Luna might be a bit cheaper too)

And Luna has actually been my favorite coding model that predictably just works at boring dev tasks.

Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by senor_digimon » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC

Pricing power is kind of interesting in this situation. The human programmer is utterly dependent atm and will be come more so over time because the programming muscles are headed to near zero level of conditioning. We simply cannot not pay the asking price. The only other phenomenon that can break this phenomenon is the commodification of LLMs and GPU compute. It's really just an unprecedented time.

Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by BasketFace » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 12:38 PM UTC

softwaredoug wrote: post #26

There’s not going to be much of a price difference from Luna (Luna might be a bit cheaper too) And Luna has actually been my favorite coding model that predictably just works at boring dev tasks.

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Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by tehnoslow » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

It’s interesting to watch what’s happening in the AI market right now. On one hand, low API prices help attract users quickly but on the other hand, running these models is extremely expensive and companies still need to find a way to cover their compute costs... The announcement about future price increases also looks like a classic marketing move, of course. I don’t know, I’m just really curious what this whole market will look like in five years or so

Re: DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

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Post by vcryan » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

Let's see what it is. They said "significantly" not "tremendously". Doubling the price would be significant, still, it would be very affordable. Let's see!