alt Hacker NewsDeepSeek permanently cut its V4-pro API prices by 75% because they were too expensive. Without the price cut, Deepseek V4-pro tokens would have cost more than resold Opus 4.8 tokens.
Opus 4.8 is a more capable model, so almost nobody was going to pay for V4-pro at the original price.
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China also have trust issue with American companies. Most of State-owned companies will not use those services even if they can directly access them.
If other providers can match Deepseek's first party prices, that probably means that the economics for running inferencing work out for them.
Urm, no? I man they did cut prices by 75% that part is true - but they reduced a starting price that was below sonnet.
Also it's a open weight model, doing that is impossible long term because the real price will be set by the other model providers, who priced it around 60% of sonnet inference cost. Had to look that up though, so that's today's pricing.
> Without the price cut, Deepseek V4-pro tokens would have cost more than resold Opus 4.8 tokens.
You mean it's functionally as if American tokens are being price dumped in China and Chinese model providers are being forced to compete with that and innovate? So many delicious layers of irony, lol :-P