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▲DeepSeek API Pricing Update (twitter.com)
51 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago | 15 comments
f311a 10 minutes ago [-]
Opencode said they are working on matching the old prices using their own inference.

Right now, they give 4100 credits for Luna and 63 000 for Deepseek on their prepaid plan (both are 2x)

usagisushi 19 minutes ago [-]
According to their post:

      Model                         |                 | Input                  | Output          | Cache Read      
     ------------------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|---------------------|----------------- 
      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

embedding-shape 11 minutes ago [-]
> EDIT: formatting

Keep at it, I believe in you.

petercooper 56 minutes ago [-]
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.

timmmmmmay 5 minutes ago [-]
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
unified101 60 minutes ago [-]
About 3x increase. Luna is now a much better deal. Hope they don't increase their prices in response.
cmrdporcupine 25 minutes ago [-]
Luna vs v4 Flash, sure.

But DeepSeek v4 Pro is a far more capable model and still cheaper than anything that it competes with, from what I can see.

Flavius 54 minutes ago [-]
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.
m101 36 minutes ago [-]
Tibo said it’s permanent, whatever that means
LoganDark 9 minutes ago [-]
Probably means it's not intended as temporary, but not that the price will never change again.
slopinthebag 8 minutes ago [-]
Ah well. I spend about $5/month with Deepseek, so now I’ll have to find room in my budget for $15. Might have to tip my barista less or something.
Gecko4072 32 minutes ago [-]
https://xcancel.com/deepseek_ai/status/2087864589895798968
pu_pe 50 minutes ago [-]
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.
cmrdporcupine 16 minutes ago [-]
It does seem to me that DeepSeek themselves aren't so much interested in being a service provider. They do it, and offer the service, but their pronouncements seem to be that they're more interested in being for now closer to a research lab with a longer term play for something more dramatic later.
ChrisArchitect 36 minutes ago [-]
non-x link: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20260813114752/https://api-docs....)
TrustScoreAgent 4 minutes ago [-]
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