| ▲ | giancarlostoro 5 hours ago | |
Is Deepseek just eating cost or are people able to host their open models for comparable costs? | ||
| ▲ | psittacus 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
If openrouter is to be trusted, the cheapest offers that are not from Deepseek itself are: - twice as expensive on the output (1.52 vs 0.87) - six times as expensive on the input (0.33 vs 0.05) https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro?sort=price#pr... | ||
| ▲ | trollbridge 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Other people are hosting it in the same order of magnitude. Xioami recently matched DeepSeek’s pricing. | ||
| ▲ | natrys 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
These things enormously benefit from economies of scale. I am fairly certain their margins might be low but they don't actually sell API at loss, however that doesn't mean your cost footprint would be anywhere as low. | ||
| ▲ | re-thc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
They focused on caching and other optimizations. | ||
| ▲ | rsanek 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Likely CCP-subsidized | ||