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I'm guessing this is almost entirely about the incredibly low cache read prices. Few have come close to them, nothing has a bigger effect on (a typical) session
by petercooper 2mo ago
I'm guessing this is almost entirely about the incredibly low cache read prices. Few have come close to them, nothing has a bigger effect on (a typical) session price, and with the price of RAM right now, they have to be the biggest pain point for them right now? A 10x increase in cache read would be a significant increase, yet would still keep them cheaper than every other provider of their model (at least based on the prices at https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro#providers https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro#providers)
- andai 2mo agoI wanted to say luna's way cheaper now too, but oh my god I must have misremembered, DeepSeek cache read is 0.002, not 0.02.
- cedws 2mo agoI guess the low pricing was so DeepSeek could gather training material. The provider on OpenRouter indicates that data can be retained.
- npn 2mo agoFrom the private conversation of deepseek CEO and the investors, I'm under impression that they take pride for the low API price though. So it is not only training data. If they really want the data there are many other ways to do so.
- jaggs 2mo agoYes exactly this. Even a significantly higher price will mean they're way cheaper than rivals. I wouldn't make any changes until we see exactly what the price rises are.
- petercooper 2mo agoAnd confirmed: https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2087864589895798968 https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2087864589895798968 Pro's cache hit prices are 12x or 6x higher now depending on time of day.