alt Hacker NewsProps to them. That makes DeepSeek v4 Pro extremely cheap compared to others, even in the same category. Look at these prices per million outputs tokens:
DeepSeek V4 Pro: $0.87
Qwen 3.7 Max: $7.50
Grok 4.3: $2.50
GLM 1.5: $3.08
Opus 4.7: $25.00
GPT-5.5: $30.00
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onlyrealcuzzo • today at 7:45 PM
And they don't make the model worse once you have a subscription!
It doesn't matter how good Opus is if 2 months into your subscription they make it worse than GPT 3 to save money.
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marksully • today at 7:02 PM
*GLM 5.1
It's actually even cheaper when you look at the cache read costs. Those costs can dominate in agent workflows and DeepSeek's cost for cache reads is insanely low comparatively. At $.003626/M tokens, the cheapest other thing on your list is >$.2/M tokens. That's on the scale of 100x cheaper.