alt Hacker NewsDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is an open-weights model which means price is determined by competition/invisible hand of the marketplace: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
With the exception of cache costs, all providers have similar input/output costs.
Not counting the cost of making the model, which is subsidized by… someone? The chinese gov i think?