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DeepSeek API Pricing Update
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We’re launching DeepSeek-V4-Pro today! 🚀 🔷 Major Agent upgrades with strong production gains! 🔷 Flexible reasoning effort for V4-Pro & V4-Flash: low for simple tasks, high for daily Agent workflows, max for complex tasks. 🔷 Native OpenAI Responses API support, optimized for XユーザーのDeepSeekさん: 「API pricing update 💰 With the V4 lineup release, we’re updating our API pricing and introducing peak and o...
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- Praise: DeepSeek v4 Pro is a powerhouse model, outclassing competitors while still being cheaper — it’s a win for those who need top-tier performance on a budget.
- Praise: Despite the price hike, DeepSeek remains more affordable than rivals for cache hit pricing, keeping it accessible for heavy users of agentic coding tools.
- Praise: The competition among dozens of vendors for DeepSeek ensures that prices could stabilize or even improve in the long run, unlike single-vendor solutions.
- Concern: The 3x price increase is a bitter pill, casting doubt on DeepSeek's future pricing strategy — will they keep hiking costs as demand surges?
- Concern: The steep increases in cache hit pricing for DeepSeek Pro could cripple users reliant on long sessions, making it less viable for intensive applications.
- Concern: Concerns loom over DeepSeek's capacity to handle demand, with fears that rising prices are just a stopgap for inadequate infrastructure.