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DeepSeek is very likely selling tokens at a loss. There're many cloud providers that provide you with DeepSeek V4 Pro via API, and those services at least twice
by raincole 5mo ago
DeepSeek is very likely selling tokens at a loss. There're many cloud providers that provide you with DeepSeek V4 Pro via API, and those services at least twice as expensive as DeepSeek itself.
- raincole 5mo ago^Sorry for this understatement. DeepSeek is actually selling tokens at a far cheaper price than my previous comment implied. DeepSeek V4 Pro price on OpenRouter: deepseek: $0.435 / $0.87 baidu/fp8: $1.521 / $3.042 novita/fp8: $1.64 / $3.38 Yup. DeepSeek either has next-generation hardware that somehow no one else has access to, or they're selling at a loss.
- throawayonthe 5mo ago> next-generation hardware that somehow no one else has access to not necessarily 'next-gen', but they've optimized for the Huawei Ascend 950 right? not a lot of those outside china at least