From the announcement:

We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected. Please plan your usage accordingly. The specific pricing plan will be subject to official notice.

Now, the question remains, what does that "significant" mean? Would it still be cheaper than the competition, or did they realize they are too cheap for what they offer?

Given that many inference providers offer DS4 flash for more or less the same input and output token price as DeepSeek, they have good profits even with todays low prices.

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_aavaa_ 14 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s all about the cache prices. Those dominate usage, cached tokens are easily >90% if not >95% of all used tokens.

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miroljub 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, but I'm not sure. They recently dropped cache prices 10 times. Why would they rudder back after only a few months?

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_aavaa_ 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don’t know but that’s not my point. My point is that even small absolute value changes in cached token prices will have massive impacts on final cost because of the sensitivity on it. If v4 flash cache prices go from 0.0028 to 0.01, the absolute change looks not that big (and would be a rounding error for input and output costs) but it would explode actual usage costs.

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faangguyindia 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

to fund training a far better and capable model.

	▲	HarHarVeryFunny 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn't make sense - they very recently said they have plenty of money, and are only limited in training a larger model by lack of GPUs (Huawei as well as NVIDIA) available to buy.