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DeepSeek API Pricing Update

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Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update

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Post by petercooper »

As well as the headline in/out changes, people heavily using agentic coding tools will want to note the 6x (off peak) and 12x (peak) increase to cache hit pricing on Pro (since cache hit can easily make up 90%+ of input on long sessions).

DeepSeek was hugely underpricing cache hit pricing before and even after this increase they're still cheaper on that metric than every other provider I'm aware of, but it will put an end to those "I used 1 billion tokens and spent $4" reports.

Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update

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Post by Flavius »

unified101 wrote: post #2

About 3x increase. Luna is now a much better deal. Hope they don't increase their prices in response.

Why not? They probably only offered those deals because of DeepSeek aggressive pricing. Now that DeepSeek is 3x more expensive it's time to revert those discounts.

Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update

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Post by pu_pe »

This now places deepseek flash v4 from DeepSeek themselves at higher prices than openrouter (depending on caching). Will be interesting to see if third party prices remain the same.

Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update

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Post by m101 »

Flavius wrote: post #4
unified101 wrote: post #2

About 3x increase. Luna is now a much better deal. Hope they don't increase their prices in response.

Why not? They probably only offered those deals because of DeepSeek aggressive pricing. Now that DeepSeek is 3x more expensive it's time to revert those discounts.

Tibo said it’s permanent, whatever that means

Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update

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Post by usagisushi »

According to their post:

  (Input / Output / Cache Read, [$/M])
  DeepSeek-V4-Flash: 
    Prev: 0.14 / 0.28 / 0.0028 
    Off-Peak: 0.22 (1.6x) / 0.66 (2.4x) / 0.007 (2.5x)
    Peak: 0.44 (3.1x) / 1.32 (4.7x) / 0.014 (5.0x)

  DeepSeek-V4-Pro: 
    Prev: 0.435 / 0.87 / 0.003625
    Off-Peak: 0.66 (1.5x) / 1.98 (2.3x) / 0.022 (6.1x) 
    Peak: 1.32 (3.0x) / 3.96 (4.6x) / 0.044 (12.1x)
gpt-5.6-luna: $0.20 / $1.20 / $0.02 / $0.25 (In / Out / Cache Read / Cache Write)

EDIT: formatting

EDIT2: giving up on the formatting :-/

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