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Is Deepseek just eating cost or are people able to host their open models for comparable costs?
by giancarlostoro 5mo ago
Is Deepseek just eating cost or are people able to host their open models for comparable costs?
- re-thc 5mo agoThey focused on caching and other optimizations.
- psittacus 5mo agoIf 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#pricing https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro?sort=price#pr...
- trollbridge 5mo agoOther people are hosting it in the same order of magnitude. Xioami recently matched DeepSeek’s pricing.
- rsanek 5mo agoLikely CCP-subsidized
- natrys 5mo agoThese 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.