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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.
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 /…
Keep at it, I believe in you.
Right now, they give 4100 credits for Luna and 63 000 for Deepseek on their prepaid plan (both are 2x)
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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
the neat thing about the models being open-weights is there's a dozen other providers on OpenRouter still at the old price, or lower
the neat thing about the models being open-weights is there's a dozen other providers on OpenRouter still at the old price, or lower
If you check on OpenRouter, some other providers serve V4 Flash at seemingly cheaper normal input/output tokens rates, but with a huge caveat: they have at least a 5x increase of the cache hit cost of the official API, some have a 10x+. No provider comes close to Deepseek's old low cache prices, and cache is 90%+ of what matters in agentic sessions.
Closest comparison:
- Deepseek: $0.14/$0.28 with $0.0028 cache hit cost for official API
- DeepInfra: $0.08/$0.18 (cheaper base rates!) with $0.016 cache hit (almost 6x!! Deepseek's current cache cost)
Another great example is Kimi K3, official API is $3/$15 and the cheapest provider on OpenRouter is $2.8/$14, only a tiny difference.