DeepSeek wiped $600 billion off Nvidia in January with the cheap-AI story.
Today it raised its own prices up to 1,100%.
DeepSeek is raising API prices by up to 1,100% with a new peak/off-peak billing structure, effective August 16.
Before you read on. Your call?
VERIFIED
1,100%
confirmed. V4-Pro cached input tokens go from $0.00362 to $0.044 at peak hours (1,113%). Output tokens from $0.87 to $3.96 (355%). V4-Flash sees 57-400% increases. Peak hours: 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, which covers prime US working hours.
The twist
seven months ago this company panicked Wall Street by training a frontier model for under $6 million and pricing it at a fraction of American competitors. The cheap-AI disruption story just hit its sell-by date.
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Receipts
- Supports api-docs.deepseek.com:
01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC (all other hours are off-peak)
- Supports fortune.com:
DeepSeek increases prices for AI services by multiple times
- Supports engadget.com:
DeepSeek's AI models are about to get four times pricier
- Context infoworld.com:
DeepSeek raises some V4 prices by more than 10x as AI demand strains capacity
- Supports caixinglobal.com:
raises API prices by as much as 1,100%
- Refutes theconversation.com:
DeepSeek shatters beliefs about the cost of AI, leaving US tech giants reeling
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